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Mr. HUGGETT, the secretary, read several letters
from various eminent individuals apologising for non-
attendance, and expressing entire sympathy with the
views of the meeting.
Mr. Wren, M.P., proposed the first resolution,
which, in terms, stated that the window-tax is un-
equally imposed, falling most heavily upon the trad-
ing and productive classes—that it restrains the in-
dustry of the country, and obstructs the progress of
architectural improvement—that, excluding light and
preventing due ventilation in dwellings, it tends to
encourage habits of uncleanliness, to engender the
most fatal diseases, and to impoison the health and
strength of all classes, especially the labouring poor.
The Hon. Gentleman enforced the correctness of the
position taken, with respect to the injustice of the
impost, and argued that its abolition would be at-
tended with the most beneficial results without any
injury to the revenue, for the people, rather than con
sent to the continuance of a tax so oppressive, would
submit to taxation.in another shape, so that the defi-
ciency would:easily be made up. He was happy to
find some gentlemen around him who had been en-
gaged in obtaining a repeal of the house-tax in 1833
and 1834. He thought they had a strong claim for
a repeal of the window-tax, for, if he remembered
rightly, they were at that time given by Lord
Althorp; or his Administration, a distinct pledge
that the impost would be abolished. The window-
tax pressed most severely on the middle and
working classess, and though they were
reported to be agitators, it was found they
had acted most patiently under the burden
and the taxation that afflicted them. If the window-
tax had oppressed the rich with anything like the
severity with which it bore down upon the poor, he
thought it would long since have been removed ; but
the middle classes, from a desire not to interfere with
the Ministry of the day, or to embarrass them in their
legislative measures, abstained from agitation, and
hence it was that they found the impost still main-
tained. The Noble Lord now at the head of the
Government was. one of those who acted with the
Grey Administration when the pledge of abolition
was given—he, to a certain extent, was carrying out
the principles of that Government, and it now became
incumbent on him to redeem the pledge, if for no
other reason, or on no other ground, than simply
because the pledge was given some years back. The
present was a most opportune period for agitating the
question, and a convenient season for organization, for
when they saw a Government determined on effecting
sanitary reform, it was fitting they should call their
attention to this .tax, as affecting the health of large
towns and the lives of the middle and lower classes.
In their first report, issued by the Sanitary Com-
missioners, the state of the sewers alone was pointed
out as the cause of sickness and infection, and the
various diseases which preyed upon the masses of
the people. Not a word ss as said about the
shutting out of wholesome air, and the impeding
of proper ventilation, by the blocking up of
windows consequent on the burden of the win-
dow-tax. It struck him as rather strange that so
much attention should have been devoted to the im-
perfect sewerage of the metropolis and large towns,
while the thorough ventilation of the houses was
altogether overlooked ; but then, upon reflection, he
remembered that windows were taxed, and that the
sewers were not.— (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He
hoped, however, that the windows would not be over-
looked, and that ere long they would have free air,
plenty of light, and good ventilation. He rejoiced
that 'Westminster was now doing—what it had always
done—its duty, and that it took the lead in an organi•
zation which, he had not the least doubt on his mind,
would terminate only with the total repeal of the
window-tax. Larger towns were only awaiting the
example of London, to follow it ; and before many
weeks had elapsed their organization(would be general.
The feeling was, that the tax must and should be
repealed. True, it yielded something like 1,600,000/.
per annum, but then the people were content to pay
an equal sum in another form ; and after that meeting,
when the ramifications of the projected association
were complete, and the organization wide extended,
they would say as one man that the tax should not
longer be continued. The advocates of the tax men-
tioned, that as it was easy of collection, and as it
yielded 1,600,000/. yearly, it could not be dispensed
Nvith ; but neither of those questions of expediency
ought to enter into consideration. The tax affected
the health, the lives, and the rights of the people. It
was pronounced to be unjust and oppressive, and it
should be repealed.—(Hear, hear.)
%Ir. HEALEY seconded the resolution. He said
there could be no doubt of the importance of this
question. There had as yet been no guarantee given
to the public that a change was to be made in the
existing laws with respect to the window-tax. 1k
had no doubt of the success of this movement, for it
was one deserving of the most perfect success. The
Government could not, in fact, provide perfectly for
' sanitary reform unless it provided free circulation of
air and free access of light.—(Hear.)
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. SAUNDERS, of Bath, said that this tax operated
with great severity upon the city of Bath, in conse-
quence of the peculiar plan upon which the houses
were built. This tax was, in fact, opposed to the
liberty of the subject ; and when it was considered
what a small amount of revenue it returned, it would
be at once admitted that such an obnoxious tax ought
not to be continued. He had great pleasure in pro •
posing this resolution—" That an association be now
formed, to be called ' The London and Provincial
Union for the Abolition of the Window-tax,' for
the purpose of obtaining, by every legal means, the
total and immediate abolition of that obnoxious tax."

Dr. Simrsow seconded the resolution, which was
carried by acclamation.
Mr. J. GBORGE proposed the appointment of a com-
mittee to carry out the views of the meeting.
The resolution having been seconded, was unani-
mously agreed to.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, after
which the meeting separated.

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religious leaders—Colonel Sydney and the emissaries of
the Prince of Orange—and the plots of Sunderland,
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being invested with all the attractions that can be given
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The inauguration of the part of the Marseilles to
Avignon Railway between the former city and Arles,
took place ou Sunday last.

COUNT DE MONTAIEMBERT'S SPEECH
ON SWITZERLAND ON THE 14TH INST.
Count de Montalembert—Out or all the documents
that have been presented to us, I shall take notice
only of that in which M. Guizot speaks of the coun-
ter-action which the victory of the Radieals would
have in Europe, and of the dangers which the Duke
de Broglie yesterday so eloquently depicted. What-
ever may have been hitherto said, the war in
Switzerland was neither for nor against the Jesuits,
neither for nor against the Cantonal sovereignty;
they fought there for you, and they fought there
against you—they battled for and they battled against
that regular liberty of which you are the representa-
tives in Europe.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the real
object of the struggle called forth by men who would
not demand better than this very day to fling from
the other side of the Alps and of the Jura the fire-
brand of civil war. It is social order—liberal order—
which has been vanquished in Europe by a new in-
vasion of barbarians. Before entering on the question,
allow me to remind the Chamber that at this very
period last year I was in this tribune to
denounce the violation of treaties and the
occupation of Cracow; this year I am about to do the
same thing. Last year the question in agitation was
the last remains of Poland, this year it is the cradle
of Helvetic liberty. I will not speak to you of the
excesses committed, of priests killed in the heat of
combat, of those outrages which have been branded
with reprobation by the highest authority in the
world, by the Sovereign Pontiff. But see what was
done in cold blood after the contest. The Radicals
re-established confiscation, that punishment of the
times of oppression and feudality. They have levied
fines, not only on religious houses, but on the citizens
themselves. And what were those fines ? They were
the entire fortunes of the vanquished.—(Sensation.)
They did not stop there. The conquerors dared, with
their blood-stained hands, to write the name of St.
Vincent de Paul; and do you know why ? In order
to exclude the sisters of charity, guilty of hiving de-
voted their lives to the service of the poor and of the
sick. They were driven out like wild beasts, and only
had an hour's delay allowed them to quit Switzerland.
—(Murmurs.) But this is not yet all. Behold those
men ascending the road which many of you have
followed, that road which has been traversed by so
many Christians, where the French Republic itself
halted with respect, where Napoleon left remem-
brances of glory and toleration, and where repose the
mortal remains of one of the brave officers of our army,
General Desaix.— (Hear, hear.) Do you know where
they are going ? They are going to rob the monks
of St. Bernard.—(Hear, hear.) And here Count
Pelet (de la Lozere) must allow me to make
one observation ; it is not only the Jesuits that have
been struck ; the Protestants of the Canton of Vaud
suffered similar treatment ten days after; they also
were forbidden to exercise any kind of religious wor-
ship. The consequences of the events which had taken
place in Switzerland have already been felt in France.
In the department adjoining that country the people
were in alarm. I was in Bourgogne, where the banquets
of Dijon, Chalon, and Autun took place. You know
what a part Switzerland played in those scenes. Ido
not come here to denounce the banquets and their
originators. I approve of the language of the com-
mittee. Those manifestations are tolerated by liberty,
and it is liberty I wish, above all things, to defend.
Religion has no need of defence, it is eternal ; pro-
perty changes hands, but it always exists and defends
itself. But what ends with a people is liberty—
during long ages it disappeared. Take care ; Radi-
calism will destroy liberty ; Radicalism is its anti.
podes, it is the exaggeration of despotism.
Count Mole—Excellent!

Count ite Montalembert—Liberty is respect for
man, Radicalism is contempt for man—contempt the
most arrogant. I consider myself entitled, more
perhaps than any other, to speak in favour of liberty.
I have been deemed exclusively devoted to religious
liberty—but no ; I am devoted to liberty of every
description—to liberty in its fullest sense.—(Appro-
bation.) Liberty has been the idol of my existence,
and if I have anything to reproach myself with, it is
that I have loved it too well. But I do not repent
having done FO—(Hear, hear)—and it is because I
love it so ardently that I cannot bear to see it sullied.
I comprehend the tactics and the language of the
persons of whom I have just spoken ; but what I do
not comprehend is, the conduct of a dynastic and
regular opposition which applauds the success of
Radicalism in Switzerland. If the cause of the
Swiss Radicals were to triumph in France, what
should we have ? Disorder and anarchy—nay, worse
than anarchy, for that at last becomes extinguished
of itself. We should have organized Radicalism, and
yet the dynastic opposition applauds it. We have
witnessed the annihilation of liberty at Friburg,
Lucerne, everywhere. Lately, in the canton of
Vaud, an electoral law was established ; the
ballot was abolished ; voting by a show of hands was
decided on ; mid the election was placed in the hands
of the prefect, who frequently proposed himself.
Lately, too, a Jesuit happened to say to the prefect,
" Count the votes!" He was at once seized on and
thrust out of the canton. The elections are effected in
several cantons under the influence of the federal
troops—that is, of foreign bayonets. How do you
suppose the most moderate of the Radicals act ?
During the elections they place the candidates and
electors who are in their way in the guard-house.—
(Laughter.) Such are the theories of the men to
whose success toasts were drunk at the banquets of
the Opposition ! But since I have thus denounced to
you the crimes which have been committed in Swit-
zerland, whom do you imagine I consider as the
principal offender ? The Foreign Secretary of State
of her Britannic Majesty.—(Sensation and agitation.)
When Noble Peers stand up in this tribune, and
speak what they think of the Emperor of Austria
and of Prince de Metternich, I may surely declare
my opinion of Lord Palmerston. It is he who
is my eyes is the- executioner of the inde-
pendence of Switzerland ; it is he who, at
the moment of making a manifestation in favour
of the good right, insisted on a previous under.
standing among the Cabinets, and so produced pro-
crastinations, during which he
pressed on hostilities
in Switzerland. At a biter period, when the work of
iniquity was accomplished, it is he who declared in
the House of Commons, that he had nothing to say to
the excuses which were being committed; it is he,
in fact, who enveloped by his patronage those who
put down independence and justice in Switzerland.
I have always been a partizan of the English alliance ;
I have defended it under many circumstances, against
the attacks of its adversaries ; moreover, I am a pas-
sionate admirer of that great Eeglish nation who first
presented to Europe the model of constitutional go-
vernment ; but these sentiments cannot stifle the ex-
pression of my opinion and my judgment on the
present line of policy pursued--a policy everywhere
the same. Where is the great man who at this me-
ment represents England in Switzerland going when
he quits Berne.? To Constantinople —and why ?
To promote a war on Greece, on that young monar-
chy, which is the enfant chdri of Europe, and one of
the glorious works of the present day. There can be
no doubt that the Minister who sends him there has
caused the death from grief of one great Minister, M.
Coletti, whose praise is in every mouth.—(Marks of
adhesion.) There are no Jesuits in Greece.—
(Laughter.) No, but there is French influence, and
he cannot suffer that, and if he has Opposed justice in
Switzerland, it is because the cause of justice is the
hear.) We have also had
cause of France.--(hear,
in our history many gloomy days, but never such sad
pages. We have had our days of despotism, but it
was a glorious despotism. Anarchy has also been at
other periods carried in Europe at the point of our
bayonets ; but then at least we preserved at home
peace, order, security, and justice.—(Hear,
is not with impunity that England has followed hear.) It
lowed her
policy. The encouragements given to anarchy in
Greece, in Switzerland, will not remain unpunished ;
the flames of that conflagration will cross the channel,
and show England that propriety, justice, and
liberty are 2 not the privilege of one nation alone.
Must I now pass from the great criminal to the
small one, and examine the policy of our own
Cabinet ? I believe that it had good intentions, and
lam grateful to it for them ; I believe it was in
the right in wishing to intervene in the affairs of
Switzerland, and I have nothing to add to the lu-
minous demonstration yesterday made by the Duke
de Broglie, but I find that the conduct which it
adopted neither responded to its intentions nor to its
duty ; I consider that it acted under the influence of
a yoke for which I always reproach it--that of weak-
ness. Thus, if it had shown itself more sympathetic
and more powerful at Ferrara, it would have been
still stronger in Switzerland. When the Ministry
has been spoken to of the Jesuits, it has not had the
courage to say idea that was only a farce The phan-
tom which it caressed two years since has now risen
with a thee; !erring aspect, the law in justice says,
" Do not to another what you would not that another
should do unto you." But it soon after aids, "The
justice that you mete out to others shall be meted
out to you." It is unnecessary for me to say, that I
l do not ask for a posthumous, intervention of which no
one dreams. lam riot i':, office, and Ido not occupy
I.
myself with the polity of the day or of the morrow,
but I plunge ire'm the future, the look of a man
who believ-,4 in Divine justice. Switzerland,