The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-21 00:00:00

The annual 'Militia' of the rosawbarli aad towpp
venereal Mispospeogas leatitatfea ink pine la the Main
Hall, Albans sus" oa Mande" ,valet, whoa orris& of
400 laws sad semisoft eat down to tea. Praetor ihtdo.
wick was he have takes the .hair, bat is mimsequesete of
arms Wawa that pastimes maid sot falai Ws ;
, mad Taoism Wuaow, presideat of tkenseitiat , was
gelled apes to supply hie pima. Amooget the visitant wen
ifinkerdCohdee tq ,11. P.; A Henry, Esq.,M P. ; Mr.
P.
Warne, Irma Meanness, ; sad theßev. UM Don of Inca.
Tea took place at ball pia dve e'elock, sad ski spestiag
couneeseed at gems
The CHAIRMAN, la opening tie promediage, sold
that is the pee pior thee had gained 372 maalteis,
making She whole .umber 1,831 The Mame fens sub-
ausgnitse was alio swat eatielhetery ; in 1842 they received
seder tide lurid only 3751 ; thew prune nhscripdoeut
amisaated to 7401, having doubled their amount is, eight
you*. Ie 1143 they hot 5.656 volumes Is the library, sad
they Ina incr.and to 7,733, or sadur moire thou ons.lialr,
wad the smasher of image, whit*, is 1846, unmated to 109
daily, gad about 30,000 • year, were sow 173 dolly, u d
63,000 a year. The flan... of He laritudon were la a
prosperous cooditioa—weas was Malian debt, at eae time
rennin 350 e, Is aloe* paid oe, ant they hoped to reduce
tees' ...wog• debt title pray from 6001 to 4001.
Mr, CHURCH, of Linda, proposed the lint remnant :
If if. be true that Me sovereignty of alas lints hid fa
liao lodge; thee intimidate like them are eminently mo-
tel, while load thousands into that reties wherein aro to be
found tbe soaves sad demean of Mune power."
ALEXANDER HENRY, Rol., wee received with
bad applause ea /Mag. He seM, " Abase two years
spa, I main* there wee a teeing of desponding,
minim the tiommercial geed. men of Laid., the
eassbaate befog appralunaive that trade was going
lin= nom, and tat at tonna eampetitlia wee so
great it would be extinguished gauntly. I skis
matured to predict a .strap result, mad I am sow
happy to fiat tint the eneefactunag interest is the West
mid la Leeds la particular, it ia • vary S./geishas'
endities. I, at the time alluded to, natured to ream-
mead that yea should sags year Saishiag at.d year dynes
se Me lawn of those yes wished to be year casteesees,
tellies yes that tt roe aid that veer trade would eredhelly
reeks, sad you Right Withers 'starry ea a flourisbing trade.,
I bellow ywa has since then than ird your system, an
pa
hare derived the Intuit of It. (Hem, hear.) But, sir,
there was another and a higher onaidoratin which made
me accept *Rh alacrity the invitation pm were so kind aa to
end me, for I belies that levitates was gluteus me in cone.
gunge of the re/atioal luipp.w to hold I. Manchester and
toe gouty of Lagembire, I. regard to the eduction of the
people. And althossh we there have bees eadenvonvine
to promote a astional system of education, gad may diffir,
n many respect', from the gentlemen fa this neigh-
boarttood. pat they, equally with ounielves, are deur.
Gus of forwarding, by every minas in their power,
that great object;—(hear, lume}..emd- they no doubt
believe, se we ia Lancashire do, that look'sg to the ratan,
Mere le no safety, hippie's', or greatness fee this dais
try, amp, that which has its foundation is lb. general
odusetba of the people. (" iieer, hear," aid applause.)
Mr. Henry then 'Boded to the state of education anunget
the worm la this coasts,, which he described as exceed.
haply unsatisfactory, !tad very man inferior to that whiah
• getterility of the Americas people have *coquina by
means of their palate wheels; sad, after dwelling nortly oar
some egatroverdal poiats ta elaaezioa with the established
shush sad Ike sidaeatba of the people, he remarked that
thls onatry was greet is its pablia expenditure, in ire amiss
sad its agent, hot sot Is refitment to the educatim at its
p..p!.. Ilisehatisal power, the art., and the seiseees, kod
dose stub for this country ; but they could sot hope to
wake the best am of the talents and eavantagea Mei bad if
thee loft the mass of the people uninstructed. (Hear, bear.)
JAMES GARTH MARSHALL, E.q., M.P., who cta
rising was received with load &opiates', geacluden a power.sl
opted' by propene', That as It is the induputable
tendency of the at sechealcal ogatriveasn of the age to
inomse the tedalithe of Nadal and moral prow as, no time
should be lost to qualityiag the people to resogalee, appro.
slate and asks am of these %militia."

The Rev. G. W. CORDER samoded the proposition.
RICHARD COBDliti, 8.q., M.P., wise was grated
with serval rounds of cheer., said—ll ilea speakers who
have receded me have found some diflleulty la addressing
yea owing is the somewhat trite topic we have met to dis-
ease, bow mom I feel titer the el .qaesee to whisk you hate
jai been latealog I came hen tooled, sot with the
taut idea of makiag any coamibattme to year ford of
*lke, or °tido/ding the Whitlow stmaills m Ives iesi
Is As "see of this lasitatios. But I came Item to-sight
wowed by a erase of daty—of duty to the members
eg liels selocietios. sad of duty to Wm patrons and
of the institotion • beams' I think It is
ieluuluLd to enemies/le all ismrned, If Mere Ina a dia.
11111110110 attend and hunt to y roe maul stork taking. Now,
I ase "ad to heat by the report read to might that yea are
Is eel derishifes a condition. Probably, la hackles rotted
do nom, I ram be led to doubt whether there night not
be same alloy to the eatielation we skald have felt if
year eeepected Illtallela had given as an aselyeis of the
silsiptiless of year members. tans, bear.) New, Res-
essess. I bold la my baud a resolatira whisk sups,That
se "Needles a superior edseatioa for clime' who could sot
isdiastgrii• weds it. sad as glees to tadastry the elevates,
elms Ise of latellegesee,neesaales'eastitetleseare performing

most fieportant end are worthy of etrehurnit pup
pen." Onstlemma, I feel somewhat el the difficulty which I
rtdok my Mead Mr. Remy felt is riesling with hie notion.
Tom allude hare to this institutiou furnishing education to
tbros who have sot otherwin the means of obtaining it.
111,w, I shouid Ilk. to me the analysis of the members of
pest misty, es well as other socse•ies calling themselves
smsehissioe institutions; for I am tether timid that it
mould b., found herr, as I koow M is elsewhere, that sot
smobsurth of the members of these lostitutions an,
*lesly speaking, of the 'mechanises wonkier; clam. (Bear,
beer) Acid the quarties which would obviously protein
itself to my mad la this—that there should be other meats
pr rridgid by whisk the poor sad Ishouriag closes should be
Willed to beams oar meeelatas as membees et this acid
Modred immitatioas. (Hear, bear,)_ I ma sot going to
bask • Mose hen with friesd, Mr. Deism, m to low this
eidsosSas is to be gives. (Applause.) I 'Amid tenaider
glis • very seditist plies ad occasion to d. so ; although
I shall have to break a lases elsewhere with him probably.
(• Reel, I•ar " from Mr. Baines, and applause) Bat et
wawa I Mask this meeting will enable as to eons into
alas oestrogen; in as mainble spirit; and I am satisfied,
hem watt I have sees of Mr. Buses in sonar:ion with tile
foldlimMem, as well as other, fa Yeekattin, that how.
ear we Illy dila with It. is what is the beet
Meath odueatiag the people, 1 have so right to meow
reef perm to the slightest degree mere a,al in the ears
egsgoer edsostios them Mr. Baines does. (Applause.)
Des,gestlineee, it is sot a satisfactory this* to had that we
Mg soostantly is damper of Medusa ourselves that we are
leg with the mass of the toople, while wears ha tact
'Ph only a very what ratios of the populates..
Obear.beia ) infest sot only el meekest's' lastitstions,
Mime pea de set lad saeohanies it a rule, kat se a si-
mples; I speak also at every effort that is made to mash
the mar est the people, sad I my we have deluded ourselves ;
Ise imoseed M resithiag them we have has e d midway,
sad base nialesered to the wants Gad the sepMesuta el so-
uther par. (Hear, bear ) Take the " Naar Ursine."
gad by the Society for theDiffusios of Usei Know..
14111 alti cinnamic's anemia the worlds' illeelee. It was
Ante mod by them, bet by the saddle class. ARA the
" /Nemo Calopmila" the tame. Where de pea lad
Chambers.' Ma. &sins" but is the Ably famished &swiss
room l Thee, gettlossaa, hay the mama the people bas
yet as undeveloped stratum which we have yet to pimento
sad work. (Appian e.) Tow have hated sometlatsi sheen
the mate of education is Ameba. The thief, whisk et e*
me reset in travelling Womb the palled Ilmtse ems las
great elevation of the mass el the peseta there akalsthe
suielittes of the same der of people la tile soapy. (Hear.
hem.) I say it • sea visits the Uatt'd States sad travels
through that cosatry—if is leaves this las! Oinking him-
omit • degasses, but is la manly mmethieg sloe, he will
some bash from the Dated Mates • real, thereof* tory.
Re will lad hie preisAess sad ermeeptibilides so abashed by
the rabbles of elbows egalest the really sambetsis elms
of etell•inalq, la the semseboat, the railway earriego, sad
iusirow
demi 41.1.=
whabre soh° ntarsk'y athifyhw.ibtr Z." ktr
the
people, he will eons back what he we. la reality whim he
am me —• real aristocrat. (Hear, bear.) Bat Uhe sersthere
&Menu madly to mostitala whittler the people them sm
dammed above the work iag Masses of all ether plasm
is the world, I. will lOW beck deU4itted wish the old&
MAI of Astoria. (Able* ) What Ms* .114 1111
was, that I did set_ isal M (hp New MOW of
Astoria' ay elms iesresposding with the mimes et the
week*/ dame is our agricultural sad sea
rearm Really they hal raked iMinitisly above ma=
I have so lissitatios ha saying thmt the male of be pimp*
whether employed ht the vissitsholp, or apes the lead, is gm
stain of Nal Daglaad, arias nest elevated by Asir ear
mane sad the lee epos sad siommess of thehr Mess, sham
the same clam is legiasii se most illum is limbed are Mud
above ..be mom alms is Aimed. per' (Hear.) (Hut's'
wen, I say Austria Proper, beenee I don't shoats to
Mode the barbarous es d OUR mustry. And I wry Ai
we not delude tionelow whim, are
.E seand leave .at the
great mar of the pepadaties, ms be all lull MM.
nem where there I so genera ilea ? sad I my that is
this sogistsy we bass everydrami yet to do Is the way el
'dummies sad isstnaties. sot Mien as that sob-
*a sew. I shall have a gaol Asa to my ups It Itenositer.
bat I will sot my an grOOMMoramit Ith year Wimp
(Rear, hear.) Bat I have hosed MOM* dal it we. gaged
by a Mood of mime at Hableselield, the other day, that diem
Is semethiag to the luau ludestry which lends
to • deterioratioo of the spoils i• whisk. Made to Ware the
m. RIM powers, rather WM illiefeee them It was but
he other day that I emllmemeed as *Mass Masi by Dr.
Holmes at the soiree of the Mmidersield Illeekashe Is-
m-tattoo ; sad shim them be i.e lessened sal by • hatter
is rear. is is. at the aewspapan at Masakmac, is
which he quotes • great may authorities to Chow that a
Matias at Libras bat • territory to tsarist the capes.
silo M the fealties, sad to deteriorate the hum mind.
Now I Adak than is mom mistake as to the propodties
Wen sr. It yea cal me whether ama who mass
$ whole pia has opt more latalliallee this the mett
who merely poises I pie, I esy he has mere letsiglintla.
U arms vim* mithiaer. and hem is • the iblietry.
It to sea • 4asatlem satailigeses as es sets' hat
is • isseame what • ems dem irk! Ids
end of what he do sadly Mier Ids
(Hem, hear.) If for instaese a wbe Is
watehiti • lathe la a machins.makisg seteldiammall,
is watehiag a pleas which Revels set Ilan liiislia..6lool
In • day two and fro, that is • very
the man is marry watering the pine Omit&
and forwards. oa would say—or rather than vb.