The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-13 00:00:00

e . 111.APSTONi AT MANCIIESTER. LNALOCRATION OF THE PEEL STATUE. uguration of the stab's of the late Sir erectid in front of the 'Loyal Infirmary, at • took place with great ceremony yesterday. • th.t the Right llon. the Chancellor of the Exch.- :, i I.NI marred to take part in the praceedinp added ;....lirsbiy to the interest lilt by the public in the event, Aiimense useinblage of people collected to witness fCI ore. having to take port in this eeremony mem .l a t the Town-hall, about half past eleven o'clock; and . ester Letme twelve they left that building. on foot, r .g led by s smell body of police, to clear the way ; the I , e ts Ixing lined with the police, and a large body, under te.T.DIMILite JiTeCtlo6 of Captain Willis, the chief consta ,.,....„pie4 061,T1.111/I: at the end of Moilley.ftreet. leading h Infirmary gat's. Robert Barnes, Esq., wore rubes of y , the for bun since his elevation to the mayor -4 the cam and bulls which is worn by the chief -,trite of this city on a:1 public acct-i ins. 'f ne following err u in the ?veer ion sir hriog their scarlet .‘ ' ,l, •n- pens , :.d i ced with sable A:dennen Sir John Potter, Sa E. Armitage, Bradford, Bauerott, Boardman, Hopkins, .e, ; ":!, Shaweroc”, Shuttles' ortb, Walker, Av.:king, and Will' rt. 'I he following councillors was is the procession, in their gowns of Irw in. silk:—Messrs. Richard Aspden, Joseph Adhead, Charles Ashmore, M. A. Bell, William Bowker, William Cottrell, Richard Dixon, Samuel Fletcher, J. Howard, S. I', Hitchcock, William Jones, Joseph Lamb, W. It. ',nigh, W. A. 314./41, Alexander M'Duugal, William Merkel,, 31. MlaJleton, Ivie Mackie, Joseph Nall, Francis l'arnell, C. Randall, Hugh Shaw, James Seholeichl, William Vickers, sat T. L. Wahines. The town-clerk wore his black side :oh,. Amongst the other gentlemen in the prJeeseion from Miff 'er Hall, we observed William Brown, EN., M.P. ; J,,.ph Brother/on, Esq , M.P. ; the Right Rev. the Lori Bishop of Manchester; Mr. Baxley and Mr. Henry Ash one,. president and vice-president of the Chamber of Corn. move; Mr. Jamie Aspinall Turner and Mr. Malcolm Rose, president and vice-president of the Commercial As ionation ; and sari vas directors and members of both these holies, and of the Peel Monument Committee—including je.,.rs. Absalom Watkis, It. P. Willack, John Reid, Wil- LAM Elltliislll, John Sharp, Thomas Hilton, James Reiss, Joseph Eirart, On reaehiag the platform erected on the site near the statue—between it and )Ansley-street—Sir John Potter, as ekwaan if the monument committee, Robert Barnes, Es.; , mayor, the Bishop of Manchester, Mr.Williasn Brown. M r ether gentletheo, came forward and took their s• 4. n.l around the chair to be occupied by the mayor. than a quarter of an hoar after their arrival, the pro were stayed, waiting tho presence of the Right llon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer; who, with the Lahrp of °Hord, Archdeacon Wilberforce, Mr. Harter, aid the ladies, had gone to the cathedral to attend divine service. At length the party arrived, about a curter past twelve, and Mr. Gladstone en his appearance sea loully cheered. Sir John Putter, having called to- L.in Mr. Calder Marshall, A.R.A., the sculptor of tar monument, the proceedings almost immediately com nencid On benches near the Chairman's platform, we observed Mrs. Gladstone, Lady Ileatheote, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Harter, Mrs. Greewell, and other ladies, who seemed to tom Krim interest is the proceedings. Sir Joris Porreu opened the proceedings with a some what licgthy address, in the course of which he said they hail assembled to inaugurate the first public statue that had tees erected is Manchester, which fact alone would, he cum ceived, be of some little importance to the community, and ieserving of some little gratulation ; bat when they were met to dedicate to the public their tribute to the memory of one of England's greatest stet...men—(bw, hear)—to offer their awed of praise to the memory of one who onus ruled the destinies of England ; and during whose long career he war acknowledged to be the most useful and enlightened of the timen's subjects, he thought they would agree with him that the occasion was of still greater importance. He megratulated the men of Lancashire that the deceased statesman was one of themselves, having been connecter with th:s district, and ever interested in the welfare of its inhabitants. (Cheers.) Having referred to the blessings which had resulted from the labours of Sir Robert Peel, Sir Jabs Potter observed that although the amount of the sab re-Officio+ for each contribution had been very limited, no iedividaal having been called upon to contribute more than twenty guineas to the Peel monument, yet, in the short epee* of four p, the fund amounted to no less than 3,742(. ; and that sum had since been increased to 5,1001. sad upwards of 1,0.57 individuals had subscribed to it. Claren.) Having briefly referred to the statues to the memory of Sir Robert Peel which bad been erected at Bury, Salford, and other places, he passed some high enco miums upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, be said, bad accomplished what Mr. Pitt had been unable to achieve in reference to the succession duty. (Cheers.) With regard to the statue, he complimented Mr. Mar sh&l, the sculptor, who had so ably discharged his duty ; ad, in conclusion, in the name of the Peel Monument CommiJee, he transferred to the mayor, on behalf of the municipality of the city of Manchester, the result of the Ishoun of the committee—trusting that it would ever be ensintained by the municipality as a statue worthy of the town, and as a memorial of one of the greatest men whom England had ever seen. (Applause.) At this part of the proceedings the covering was removed from the monument, amidst loud, general, and lo: g-oon tithed cheering. When it had subsided, The MAYOa briefly addressed the assemblage, stating that if they regarded the statue as a work of art, they must be very much struck with its elegance and completeness; and he hid no doubt that it would be a lasting testimony to the ability and taste of its author, Mr. Marshall. His worship referred to the endearing regard in which the name of Sir Robert Peel was held by the millions of bin fellow countrymen; and then introduced the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as his most able and consistent supporter dur ing his arduous struggle for commercial freedom. (Cheers.) Mr. Otenroroun then came forward amidst immense cheering, and said— Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen Although I have aot the title, although I have not the right, to ad dress you, which belongs to your worthy thief magistrate, or the title which belongs to the gentleman who has so ably discharged his trust to-day as chairman of the Peel Monu ment committee—yet I hope you will permit me to say a few words upon this occasion of interest so deep, to all those who really know and really appreciate the ammeter and the acts of the late Sir Robert Peel. (Hear, hoar.) It is not for the purpose, gentlemen, of dwelling upon the k,od arid flattering manner in which the mayor or Sir John Potter was pleased to advert to myself; for I feel that I should be Nair: ly and altogether unworthy to rank as your felloincitisea, if I were capable of dwelling upon personal matter upon au occasion like this, and in the presence of that noble effigy, which re calls to all one hearts so much that is ennobling soh so mach that is affecting. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, this is a great occasion—it is an occasion that tells of mach besides that which it exhibits to the eye. In the first place, it is impossible not to reflect that there are still, unfortunately, countries in Europeosst. wit:standing the general mitigation of laws and gartaill. menta—it is impossible not to reflect that there are eta tiuntries in Europe where, when we speak on the MIS hand of governments, and kings, and statesmen, and me the ether hand of the people, we speak of two poems that are adverse and alien to one another ; without sym pathy, without a consciousness of their community of ' interest ; but when we stand kere, we see the statue of a tan who was the chosen minister of the sovereign, who enjoyed bar unbounded confidence, who had a place, I may say, not only in her councils, but in her heart—(hear) who was the defender of the laws and institutions of the country, but who was likewise the chosen favourite of tha people—(Year, hear)—and whose name has been engravea., as I trusty believe, upon every heart of the thousands, of the myriads, that now sturrovad me, because of the acts that ha perfcrmed, and the benefits that be conferred upon England. Gentlemen, as one who bus deeply profited, mot by the simple only, but by the guidance of that great statemaa— an one who has had, mad I hope valued, many oppor tunities of appreciating his character—let me vesture re. speetfully to bear testimony to you upon the pallet which, 60 far se I ma able to jade', beyond all Wage distinguished him. It is easy to enumerate many characteristics of the greatness of Sir R. Peel. We all know the immense breadth and comprehensiveness of his understanding—we all know that he, beyond all living statesmen, and perhaps beyond ell statesmen who preceded him, thoroughly understood the workings of our noble constitution, and appreciated and sounded to the very depths the feelings and the character of the greatest deliberative, and the oldest popular iscrinbljth the world, the British 110010 of Commas. (Hear, hear.) It Is easy, gentlemen, to speak of his ability, of his sagacity, of his indefatigable industry; but, great as wan the intellectual powers of Sir Robert Peel, if yes will allow ▪ as one who may call myself his pupil and his follower a politie s -If you will allow as to bear my witness, this I Oast ash there was Mae** greater still la Sir Robert I THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1853. Peel—something Monte admirable *ea tba imasanse in tellectual endow's) Ants with which it had pleased the Al mighty to gift tam—send that was his sense of public virtue —IS WAS his pe.rlty of conscience—it was his determination th fu;low the public gonet—it was that disposition in him, which, when he had to choose between persmal ease and enjoyment, or again, on the other hand, between polities'. power and distinction—whets he had to choose between either of these blessings, either of these advantages, end what 'cc knew to be the welfare of the notion, his choice was made at once; and when his choice WY ones m ode, no man ever saw him hesitate—no man ever saw him hold back from that which was necessary to give it effect. (Cheers.) Mr. Mayor, I heartily rejoice that, in erecting to his memory this great end worthy monument, you have chose■ for it a site which is most in harmony with the histories it is intended to commemorate, and with the ideas which it is calculated to awaken. You have not placed it in seine gilded halls where it might have been the admiration of some councils- seur in art, or might have bees visited by the wealthy and the luxurious classes; but you have chosen for him the place where he would have wished to be, in the face of day, in the greatest thoroughfare of this mighty city, in the heart and centre of the commerce of England, where thousands and tens of thousands will from day to-day pass by the place where he stands, and have presented to their eyes and to their minds a spectacle which can awaken in them no seas timent except one of public virtue and of grateful recollec tion. Ant, Mr. Mayor, it is the last word which I will address to you when l say the,—may Ood grant that many of those who shall traverse this crowded thoroughfare, as they eye the work which has been this day delivered ever to your custody, that they may have awakened within their breasts the noble and honourable desire to tread, each fur himself, in his own sphere, be it wide or be it narrow, the path of duty and of virtue ; and in dis charging those functions which appertain to sae as citizen). —to discharge them in the spirit of that great man—the spirit and the determination t. allow no difficulty, no obstacle to stand between him and the performance of his duty;—relying upon it that duty is this country is the road to fame—tbat if public men do not rap their reward, ea in barbarous times they may hate sought it, from immense and extensive possessions, measured upon the surface of the earth, they reap it in a farm far more precious, when, like Sir Robert Peel, they Is,queath • name which is the property not only of their family—nut only of their own descendants, but of every man who calls himself an Englishman—a part of our common wealth—something that helps to endear us to our common country—something that makes us feel that England is indeed a country that it is a blessing to belong to—a country that has a great and beneficial part to play in the designs of Providence for the improvement and advancement of mankind. (Loud cheers.) Three hearty cheers were given for the Queen, for Mr. country a consistency and stability which have been hitherto unknown. " We find within your scheme the principle of commercial freedom, fully recognised, and largely extended, and in the abolition of the duty on soap, the most important tax re maining upon any article of nueessary consumption, erased from the statute book. "Therein was embodied, and almost without opposition I passed—in the imposition of the tax on successions—a measure which, whilst its justice has been long admitted, no statesman of recent date has ventured to bring forward, and which the great finsucier who originated the system of legacy duties, failed in the attempt to carry. " And therein was also included, and as the result of a statement, which, for its excellence, is perhaps unparalleled in the aueals of parliament, with little opposition, *sec tioned, the renewal and extension of the income tax, which all feel to be unequal and oppressive in its operation, but under the circamotances unavoidable, with, however, for I the first time, a char and distinct understanding, that at the expiration of the renewed term, such tax ought to dil lappear. "As the representatives of a community which is pecu liarly interested in the progress of commercial freedom, we tender to you our acknowledgments for your important and successful efforts to carry out fully the great principles of free-trade, and the expression of our earnest hope, that you may be long spared to devote your talents to the service of your country, and to witness as the result of that policy which you have most ably advJeated the continued and increasing prosperity of all classes in this country—re , warded by consciousness, that to the accomplishment of these vast and beneficial results your services have largely , contributed." Various poin'a in the address were most loudly cheered. ' The hl•eou added a few words; expressing the hope that • Mr. Gladstone might long live to promote the welfare and happiness of his country. He then presented the address, amidst loud and reiterated cheering. Mr. THOMAS BAZLET, President of the Chamber of Com merce, then presented the address from that body ; and Mr. J. A. TuttNen that from the Commercial Association, the tenour of both of which was ►imilar to thst of the fore going one. Mr. GhancTown, who was received with loud applause, then rose, and spoke as Collett s :—Mr. Mayor and Gentle ' men,—l may truly say—at least I ant certain that no man ever had more cause to say—that it is to me a matter of hopeless ditfizulty to convey to your minds the mixed and strong emotions which I feel to-day. I come, Mr. Mayor, to Manchester, draws hither by the strong interest that attaches to this remarkable community—to this community, which has, perhaps, accumulated greater wealth than any commercial or manufacturing emporium known in history, certainly than any provincial emporium known in the his tory of the world ; but with respect to which, its accumu . lotion of wealth is, I will venture to say, less remarkable Marshall, for Str John Potter, and for the Mayor ; and the members ot the corporation and of the committee then re turned in procession to the Town•hall. The Lord Bishop, Mr. Gladstone, and other gentlemen, with Mrs. Gladstone and the other ladies whit had been present, had previously left the ground in private carriages. PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES. The second great division of to-day's proceedings has beam the presentation of three addresses of welcome to the Chan. eellor of the Exchequer from the mayor and eorporatioa el the city, from the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, and from the Commercial Association. These presentatiose Wok place in the large room of the Town-hall, on a platform placed at the end of the hallow:I the council chamber,under Me presidency of Robert Barnes, Esq., our worthy mayor. The parties on the platform consisted of the movers sad seconders of the resolutions and address in the council meet. jog, and ► few other members of the council ; the president wad vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, and a select few of the directors; the president eat vice-president of the Commercial Association, and some of their directors. The remainder of the members of the city council, and of the directors and members of the two commercial bodiea,were mated in the body of the hall. The room, which is somewhat too small fur such occasions, is 70 feet in length by 34 feet wide. It has just been cleaned, repainted, and decorated in a very pleasing style: good old. fashioned Are-grates replace the hot-air apparatus, which too often was only a fuliginous contrivance for stifling every one with smoke ; the se-called frescoes have disappeared from the wall and dome; and the colours of the walls, the vaulted ceiling, and the dome, being much warmer than before, the room is greatly improved in general character and appearance. Besides the two pendant gas chandeliers, of 24 lights eac►, there are six branch lights from the window frames, and four on the aide than its advanced intelligence, aid the prominent part which that intelligence has enabled Manchester to bear in influencing, particularly during recent years, the for tunes and the de,tinies of this country. (Hear, hear ) No man can visit this city without being more than rewarded by what he sees and what he hears. Mr. Turner, who has just addressed you, has kindly reminded me that I am not without local ties—ties which are, and ever will be, dear to me, and give me especial interest and especial attachment to this part of the country. (Hear, hear.) I have wit nessed the wonders cf your industry—its marvellous or ganisation, the mode in which it husbands, and by hus banding multiplies, every resource that is applicable to trade and to art; and I have seen, sir, moving onwards in this town, the true representation of those united figures which you have seen today at the base of the pedestal of Sir Robert Peel. I have seen art, not govern ing only, but beautifying the productions of commerce, and I trust that this great queen, as she may be called, of productive industry, will more and more cherish the union between those two members and powers—well aware, in the first place, that beauty also is a principle of commercial strength, efficacy, and success—and that like wise, over and above its commercial effects, it has a power to refine and to elevate the mind of man—the mind not only of those whom we term the educated clasyi, but the whole mind, the whale feeling of the community. (Hear, hear.) Well, sir, to witness all this is reward enough for one who visits Manchester ; but I have found myself un expectedly among you at a moment of the deepest interest, when you have been proceeding to complete the noble tri bute that has been paid to-day to the memory of the illus trious dead. You have kindly made use of that occasion, and have employed it for the purpose of expressing the sen timents you are pleased to entertain respecting one among the living. And, sir, if I could be sensible at this moment test thefire-places ; all these have been richly gilded, and add to the appearance of the room. The pictures have been cleaned ; they are fall-length portraits ; and oar distant readers may like to know that over the platform is that of Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P. At the other end of the room is that of Mack Philips, En., the first member for Manchester in the reformed parliament; and on the walls are them of the three first mayors of Maa cheater, that of the late Sir Thomas Potter, our first of a deduction, of a drawback upon the feeling of pro found gratification with which you have filled my breast, it would be in the recollection how poor are the merits and how limited the services of him who stands before you in comparison with the immortal services and with the merits scarcely to be estimated of him whose name has been placed in junta-position with mine—pleasing in deed and flattering to me, but less, far less, than the me ' descry'. a. mayor, being placed between those of Mr. Alderman Neild, second, and Mr. Kershaw, M.P. (Stockport), third mayor. When the room wes well filled with the corporate aad mer cantile bodies we have named, it had a very cheerful and animated appearance, and at length may be said to be worthy of the corporation and the city. defeats upon secondary questions, than the government of my Lord Aberdeen. These defeats were manifestations of the freedom of judgment that prevails in the House of Com mons. (Hear, hear.) I deeply lamented them ; I sometimes was nettled by them. (Laughter.) Endeavouring to defend taxes which it ea, impossible to part with—(laughter)—un doubtedly I was not well pleased when I found, from the an nouncement of the numbers from the chair, that the rela tive forces were not exactly as I could have wished them to be. (Laughter.) But it is certainly a remarkable con currence, that along with these manifestations of freedom of individaal sentiment, and the absence of close party organi sation in the House of Commons, we have had a session of parliament that I believe has been surpassed by few for the amount of real public work and busineu that it has seen transacted, and during the coarse of which many measures of the greatest weight and importance have been passed into law. (Applause.) So much for that disregard of party considerations with respect to which you have ex pressed opinions that are in thorough accordance wi'h my own; and may I say one word more upon the subject of party connexions? It is this: lam quite sure that no man can have watched the parliamentary history of the country within the walls of the House of Commons, during the twenty years since the passing of the Reform Bill, and can have failed to i.e that in that period differences have been I softened, opinions have approximated, men of different political creeds have learned to think more kindly and more charitably of one another; the space which divided this side of the how* front that side of the house is narrower than it was; and if I am naked for the cause, I should say it was due in great part to th e e m i nen t public virtue of Sir Robert Peel, of that man who, though he was the head and chili of a party, and knew how to value its confidence, yet, when public duty called him, did not hesitate to lay upon the altar of hie country every advantage, every satisfaction which that position con ferred. and to follow the straight path of public duty, look ing neither to the right nor to the lett. (Applause) I think it is a cause of peculiar pleasure, and of great thank fulness to Providence, that during the period when we have I seen Europe making, I ens sorry to say, little progress, per haps actually receding, in the work of political organisation, and in respect to the harmony of the classes—in England we have seen this mitigation of differences taking place, and along with it we have seen great progress in works of useful legislation, and so:instant confirmation and increase, among the miscues of the community, of respect for the laws, sad attachment to the throne and institutions of the country. Well, gentlemen, you have hi en pleased—l speck now of the address of the cerporation, which I know well represents the sentiments of the inhabitants of Manchester—you have been pleased to express your confidence that the govern. Mont now in charge of public affoirs will endeavour to give Weft to such measures as shall most conduce to the honour a the erown and the benefit of the whole community. I who joseuliarly, and I am quite sure that every other mem ber st the cabinet would value as l do, this espressicia of your feelings. I am sure that Idu not altogether miner striae this reference to the honour of the crown when I In terpret it with reference to that question in which at the pre sent moment the honour of the crown, as well as other great Interests, are deeply involved—(applause)—by that question of peace and war which holds the mind of Europe in agita- tion and suspense, from one extremity of it to the other. If, gentlemen, it is your pensuion that the honour of the crown is safe in the hands of her Majesty's advisee, I am quite sure no testimony can be conveyed to them more gra tifying to their feelings, and I am quite sure no testi - would It was twenty minutes after one o'clock, when the mayor, accompanied by the Right lion. W. E Gladstone, Mn. Gladstone, and other ladies, and all the gentlemen who were to take part in the presentation of the addressee, came upon the platform, and were received with enthusiastic cheers from a too-clotely packed and crowded room. mory of that great man (Cheep.) Jr. Mayor, as represtothig the corporation ; Mr. Baxley and Mr. Aspi nail Tamer, as connected with those distinguished associa tions that have in thenni Ives expressed no small portion of the mind and influence of Manchester with regard to public affairs—l tender to you my sincerest and my profoundest thanks fur the part which you have borne, and which those The Mayon expressed, on behalf of the aflporation, to Mr. Gladstone, the most cordial welcome to this city, to the inhabitants of which he was endeared by his private worth and character, end their gratitude for his great public services. Manchester had been especially benefited by the acquisition of commercial freedom, whose consistent advocate he had been. Re had dons much to perfect and complete what Sir Robert Peel had begun. The corpora. Lion availed themselves of this opportunity to thank the right honourable gentleman for his great public services Though the council included men of every shade of politi cal °pages and eantinisnt, the address he was about to present was passed unanimously, and he believed expressed the feelings not only of the corporation, but of the whole Of the citizens and inhabitants of Manchester. (Cheers.) whom you represent have borne, in presentmg to me these addresses; and although I feel that you have greatly over valued what is due—Ceries of "No, no")—if indeed any. thing be due, whether to my personal character or public acts; yet, not on that account will the sense of gratitude be ineffaceable which you have impressed upon ms—l trust The Towx-CLial then read the following address, which was beautifully engrossed on vellum, mounted on a roller and backed with purple velvet, with pendant gold tassels, as. : to be effaced: (Hear.) But, air, I have done with personal considerations ; for, after all, 1 know well that the highly-coloured tone of your feelings, while it testifies to the indulgent judgment you peas upon the efforts and intentions of public men, is to be interpreted mainly as an espresaion of your adherence to certain principles of public policy, which principles you feel to be vital to the welfare of the country. (lieu, hear.) And therefore, what I ea eider with whom I have the honour to be associated at this moment in the public service, I blush less than I should otherwise have done at receiving the tribute of year approval and regard. You have paid, air, in t►e address of the corporation to my colleagues in the government, a to► Simony of which I may venture to say that I hope they ass mot altogether undeserving. (Applause•) It is, I trust, •• united by honourable motives ; it is true that they were . _.--......v.t. IZIOUVti ; 1.. naquestionably true that they stead associated in odic, in disregard of former party distinctions. (Rear.) Let me say as I go on that I cannot but attach a peculiar Talus to which these addresses have been many could reach than which more contribute to strengthen their hands in the discharge of public duty, and in besting that conspicuous part which must belling to Eng land in the consideration of every great European question. It was perhaps to be expected that the delays and vexations incident to protracted negotiation should lead to some sen• timents and emotions in some portions of the community ; it was undoubtedly ton expected in this free country that •he measures and motives of government, especially while they are covered in some degree by the necessary reserve, should not from every man receive a like favourable construc tion. It was to be expected that the general stn. iment, that in the present relations between Russia and Turkey there had been overbearing aggressions on the part of the former power should lead to some—with eager minds especially—should lead to some anxiety for marked and positive demonstra tions on the part of England against that aggression ; but, gentlemen, I will venture to say that her Majesty's govern ment don't feel in the least degree disposed to shrink from any portion of the responsibility which they have assumed in making every effort—or hoping, I would may, if it were cecessery, against hope and beyond hope, but happily it is not necessary—in hoping to the utmost that they might be enabled to achieve the avoidance of that frightful calamity, a general war. (Applause.) No doubt the blood of Eng lishmen is up when they see oppression or aggression going on ; no doubt the contest of stronger wish weaker appeals to those feelings which we feel to be eminently national ; no doubt, the lapse . and consumption of time without ap parent result is trying to the patience of the community; but, Mr. Mayor, let me venters to say this : that the true, the truest measure of the real greatness of a people lies in its power of self-command and self-restrsint. The self command and self- "nt, whether in nations or indivi duals, are always liable to be mistaken for, and are also certain to be charged am, indifference, as feebleness, or as cowardice. We know, I trust, the difference—we know that that dignified patience, and that 'ease of duty as men and as Christians, which makes us value peace, does not means want of readiness to vindicate, when the times comes, the honour of this country. (Hear.) What do we mean when we speak of a general war ? There is a certain glare of glory about the operation of war, which appeals to some of the elements of human - and makes us too little _ nature, mindful of the fearful accompaniments which it entails. (Hear, hear.) When we speak of general war, we don't mean real progress in the road of freedom, the real moral and social advancement of man, achieved by fortis. This may be the intention, but how rarely is it the result, of general war. (liter, hear.) We mean this: That the lace of nature is stained with human gore—we mean that bread is taken out of the month of the people—we mean that taxation is increased and industry diminished ; we know that it means that burdens unreasonable and untold entailed on late - know that it meant are . posterity—we that t...—.eansation is let loose—that families are broken up—that lusts become unbridled in every country to which that war is extended. (Applause.) And now, if that be a true description, then it is also true that it is the absolute duty of a government to exercise for them selves that self-command which they recommend to others, and to labour to the - - utmost for the adoption of any and ev- available • for averting such a frightful I could h.- 6 very t. -4 every at— expedient . _ lemur. (Applause.) Gentlemen, lam certain 1.. have anticipated it before, but at this moment I have no doubt, after the manifestation you have given, that these are the sentiments which animate the peaceful community of Great Britain. ( Cheer.) Thoee who are associated together in the works of industry and enterprise, than who, as practical men, come into close relation and class observation with the working of a public policy,—these who know the dan gers we are enooantering,—know the difficulties we have to most, and by their confidence we shall be supported. (Rear, Mar. ) It has been announced in parliament more than nam by different members of government, that her Ma advisers are well aware of their duty to maintain that i ir e X is called, and which may truly be called, the inte grity and independence of the Ottoman empire. (Rear, Mar.) That I know very well; but in speaking of the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire, we do not me those terms in the same sense as we should speak K the integrity and independence of England and Pannos—(No)—because we know that the indepen imos of the Ottoman Empire describes a sovereignty full of anomaly, full of misery and full of difficulty— • sovereignty whose affairs for five yam to five wean, and ever since we were born has commonly bees subject to Eu ropean discussion and interference . (Hear, hear.) What I mean is that we do not intend to settle this important mat . _ ter upon the deep questions which mar develop themselves out of the penliar internal organisation of the Ottoman Rasping ; for so far u near& the domination of the Sultan we an presented with the political solecism of the Mahoms• faith • • what ^•v he called • but -- "To the Right Hon. Win. Ewart Gladstone, M.P., Chan- the unanimous vote by - --- den faith exercising . ~a t may be a despotism, .. adopted. (Hear, hear.) Free discussion, perfect liberty to which I will only call a domination, a .Iveritigaty—over 12 cello of the Exchequer, bc. man to announce his conscientious opinions, is a die- millions ente r fellow-Christians. (Hear, hoer.) We don't " We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city ""Y tinguishing mark, and constitutes no small part of, the of Manchester, in council assembled, gladly avail ourselves of things; but that there is a necessity for regulating the of the opportunity afforded of bidding you welcome on the strength and the glory of the country. (Hear.) But the distribution of power in Europe where there is a certain consequence of that free discussion necessarily is a free absorption of power by one of the great poten occasion of your visit to the capital of the manufacturing districts, and of assuring you, on behalf of the vast papule- development of differences of opinion, conscientiously en- tates, Bm wh i i re M wwhoisoillidwoofolllo7. dangerous e fall to the the Otto- tertained—(hear)—and the effect of the development snare tion whom we represent, of the high estimation in which the world, it is the duty of England , arwhateveerpe cost, wee % of which upon men's opinions is surely to enhanos you are held for your exemplary prints worth and else set itself against such •• result. (Great cheering.) . Now the value of that concurrence without exception which that principle has been recognised in all the discussions on rector, and of the gratitude felt for the t public see- the have been so kind ea to announce to me to-day. which all the measures that connect themselves with this vices which you have rendered to your country. Now, Mr. Mayor, I think it is th us, first, th at those who ars great Eastern question now depend. (Applause.) Having "We refer with feelings of admiration to your generous made . that reeignition, and having laid down the principle arsociated in the government, so associated, as you have end disinterested efforts is the cause of suffering humanity,kat it is not right that there should be an abeorpuou of truly 1 in dimegard of party consideration. Ido not be- t power, and that, in the event of that taking plan, it is the at a time when you were seeking repose, and travelling in - sal . . - . • lien that the principle of party is extinguished in this duty of the government to set themselves against it, I may search of renewed health, whin you publicly and in - enntry. The machinery of government almost requires some express a trust that so long as a rational hope can be map newly denounced the persecutions with which you became• mined, that we shall have a maintenance of peace. (Hear.) kind of organisation. It is hardly possibl e that we can acquainted, and by the eloquence of your pen, and the in Now, 3dr. Mayor, that is what the government have really hope that the nature of man i s , at all events as yet, BO done. There . has group up in Europe of late years a pria- Mance deservedly attaching to your name and character , hanged that we co uld dispense ' altogether with the sem- mple to combine these great powers by the settlement of dif endeavoured, in the face of Europe, te compel a reeogni- . mations of party ; and moreover, lam bound to say that fertilises arising in particular parts. (Hear.) Manybenevelent lion of the great principles of civil liberty and the rights of the associations of party, although great evils may attend Penns have been desirous of bringing about a 'Memo( in sonscience. ternational negotiation in the event of war. (Hear.) But it is them, yet have likewise materially contributed, and ca p s o an ot o o p o tti o r f tuniz i, ol7 which Il e hin r k we may observe, r i ot will:: "Itis a gratification to see amongst us so distinguished a daily of recent years, to maintain a high standard of ho member of the Cabinet which now watches over the affairs pour among public men—(bear)—and to subject them to idly been made, and exemplified re within reg g e last ee tw ec ent; of this empire, and which is happily formed of the most the operation of those mo ti ve s which are the b e st secur ity years in the history of Europe, towards the substitution of able and experienced statesmen of the age, who, with a arbitration for war. (Hear, hear.) The miseries of wet to you for the discharge of their public duty. (Hear.) Yet patriotic disregard of party considerations, are, as we be tetween oo ll t eltu o n f i and Holland were sayst by the intfrven- I feel true gratiAcation in stating that I believe that therey Noton of tai lieve, united together for the purpose of carrying out rah t h e great machinery, po we rsis :. b y a e. machinery ( Hear.) et letter never has been a government in the history of this country, by a perfect measures as shall condaoe to the honour of the crown and during recent years, which has stood less upon the prin. than no machinery at all ; hat but e influence of the grea t the benefit of the whole community. ciple of party connexion, and more upon the general sup- powers was used for the purpose of bringing to a tenpins "As one of else most powerful and successful advocates of Port and confidence of the public, than the government tion the divisions and civil war which afflicted Spain. In those great principles of commercial freedom which will be ;L whir I d he oli e e i li th ey e e i tra n t e , ur set t h e ng he a:de m e et ut its (Ap pon c oth e e rc r iaL e zrh i° Tr i er," L itsi th lu e htfie o e f ne t e he h Mto heen for ever identified with the name of Sir Robert Peel, we which various opinions might prevail, I de, I u may, dominions themselves, in the year 1840 a war between the are glad to welcome you at the time when the first public believe, that credit was given to mend the public character niche of Egypt and the Sultan was brought to a termini monument in this city—erected by the contributions o f of my Lord Aberdeen, and my Lord John Russell, at the tion by the and agency of the great European thousands of our fellow citizens—is inaugurated to the me- time when they joined hands in December last, to carz on p owers , the kingdom of Greece, which one day we may dully observedam sur the sans be h ' on ve o tO ur sz, o or on ouf o eldest:e a ffa irs may of see,i l playing perhaps an mory of that able and distinguished statesman with whom the bo shmoutnry of se the wb ee oTa tr ie . min A t you were long associated n dike, sad who largely profited of that publie business in the House of Commons, when I was itself relieved from the desolating scourges of war by by your so-operation and mappert state it as an anquestioned fact, that the bond of party a similar action on the part of the great powers of Bumps. "We offer to you our grateful acknowledgments for the i ti t n e n y exion ot i u n itiolloeuhauzehosam you ü b t een w oo eake t r ho than oon ti o r o inz on W y ell, ro n to ow ;ho it uu ls a e gr oo et ov b e letini t that so quite at ear simprehtmein and smokiest inamial scheme which, of parliament and the approval of the y eouriiry has enabled that these are cases in which tt e e g et e sion e of Auk, the last session, was introduced by you to the the government to carry into law all its most important human blood has either been prevented, or at all Beene of Commons, with en olognesee of statement and and vital proposals, with greater rapidity and effect events its continuance has been shortened, by positive in egagirsies i e leffiseme, and a clearness sad force of maiming than have been usual upon ordinary occasions. (Applause.) te rvention , : .fr and h by intervention altogether to be distin c I *Yob excited universal admiration, and rendered opposi I con ls d y e r say it, a perhaps ,— an d con f o don ' t n thtteuht you doubt wili Li t ic h h ed won e f i t t l t inv et olve rie u e s tp i l n e particular efutalee Z t rr e e ls i n Ze e : n de l: Iles htile, and which , so the natural and mealearY re- whether there has been a government for many is not the intervention of one officious state uadertlng e suit, was triumphantly carried through both houses Of the years that hes sustained a stainer number of defeat' upon to settle all the affairs of its neighbours—it is in the main, legislature. divisions of secondary importance, I speak in the in the intervention or agency of states who, in the combined , presence of the member for Belford, of the member for affairs of Europe, have a right to say to Europe—with moms "By the avowal of the soostaltee and tomatmlitto° '" South Laumhire, and other gentlemen who can correct me thin at any rate, like authority, to say to amen tuition. you bare given to the Bahl arrangements of this lifl am wroor-who has sustained a greater cumber of sod portions of Europa, "You shall not p adios the moral peace, and you shall not bring us all--set us all by the etas on account of your litee petty local interests;" and to recom mend to them arrangements which, upon the whole, it has been found for the interest and compatible with the satis faction of parties to embrace. Well, now, the way of peace and negotiation is undoubtedly devoid of that romantic inte rest which attaches to heroic achievemente in war. I fully admit it is incident ; it is beset and clogged with delays and intrigue and chicane. (Hear, hear.) Thftt is quite true, but if the result is the saving et the effusion of human blood, and the averting that calamity which would disturb the operations of industry, and deprive nations of their subsist ence, surely the sacrifice is small, and surely the reward is adequate. (Great cheering.) Now, Mr. Mayor, I have de taiued you much longer—(no, no)—led oawards, I must say, by your kindness and indulgence—much longer in re peed to a matter of foreign policy, than I had intended. f he Chancellor of the Exchequer, you must know, in his official capacity, is opposed pretty nearly to all wars. At the same time the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his official capacity, is really of opinion that financial ar rangements, good financial arrangements, are among the most important preparations for war, when war is needs eery. And I frankly own, that as far as finance is con cerned, I really don't think that England has often been better prepared for war than she is at this moment. Matters have been reduced to a state of simplicity, and as I adverted to certain persons who were more anxious fur resort to arms than I could wish, I really suppose that those gentlemen are satisfied with the present legislative acceptance of the income-tax by the mass of the people, and its being embo lied in an act of parliament for the term of seven years. They think it might be very conve nient to introduce a bill that may double, perhaps treble, that income-tax—a very simple operation I assure you, so far as the House of Commons is concerned. (Laughter.) About twelve months since we had swathe r measure that promised a good deal of money, namely, doubling the house tax ; perhaps, possibly, there might be a portion of the com munity with whom that measure would become very popular. At any rate I assure you that it is not in my separate capacity, as having the peculiar charge of the public finances, that I deprecate war ; it is because we are all of us, as advisers of the crown, necessarily dependent one and ell in this great and vi tal subject of European •policy ; and because, whether as a minister, a Christian, or a man, I cannot but entertain from the bot tom of my heart ; feeling as I expressed, and moreover expressing my strong confidence that those are the principles which the government will endeavour to secure as you have stated, " the honour of the crown and the best interests of the csuntry." Well, Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen, with respect to the domestio policy, I need not detain you long; for the subject of the greatest interest, in connexion with the domestic policy, is that subject upon which Manchester has spoken to-day more audibly and emphatically than any man or any commusity could speak by mere words. We have happily reached the time when argument and state ment are alike needless in regard to the principles which ought to regulate our financial and commercial legisla tion. In accepting with the warmest thanks the ex pressions of your approval, which have been accorded to the efforts of governments and of public men and of par liaments during recent years, I am well aware, and the addresses that I have had the gratification to receive would have made me of themselves aware,—that naturally and properly you look not to the past only, but likewise to the future. Much has been achieved; but in the vast and ever-extending concerns of this mighty empire, so far as my own experience goes, I should say that the more active in each successive year of parliament becomes the work of legislation, not the less but the more still remains for it to do. (Hear.) New social wants are developed ; new improvements are suggested. It is a blessed career, the career of wise, of cautious, hut vigorous improvement. And to that career, in the transactions of public business, I do not believe • termination can be affixed. Now, with respect to the present, I will venture to say this one word ; we have a real reason for gratification, as Mr. Barley well said, in the state of the revenue as just declared ; there is an apparent increase upon the quarter's revenue of about 400,0001. as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1852, which was likewise a period of great prosperity. A strict analysis of that quarter's account, 1 am bound to say, would make a considerable diminution in the appa rent increase ;—but still it remains true, that upon the revenue of the country there is still a r eal increase upon the quarter of the year. Now that, I venture to submit, is, under the circumstance*, a most gratifying fact, and for this particular reason;—during the last session of parliament we repealed taxes with no sparing hand. The address of the Chamber of Commerce says it is hoped by that body, or that they should be very well pleased, if the silk duties were swept away, and if cer tain differential duties were swept away—[A Voice— The duties on wine)—and the wine duties reduced. Gentlemen, my answer to that is,—So should I. (Laughter.) But they will, I am sure, admit, as freely as 1 would state it, that it is our duty to conform our measures to the exi gencies of the state—(hear, hear)—and that, above all, we do wisely, even at an apparent sacrifice, always to a ffi x such limits to our reductions and our modifications of taxa. Lion, as to ensure to the public that immense benefit and advantage, which is a secret of strength almost inde scribable, the certainty (as nearly as human foresight can secure it) a surplus in the public revenue. But this we know, that with no sparing hand the parliament repealed taxes during the last year. I think that our repeals of taxes already in operation composed a sum of two millions sterling. We proposed to provide for the deficiency thus—at all events for a time—occasioned from three sources. One of them was enabled to do what no parin.ment since 1645 has been enabled to do, ant that is, to exercise a free and unbiassed judgment upon the question whether there should be an inc-me tax or no incense tax. That is what we have done, no more; bet I trust that they have secured to the people, through their representative, the pcwer of using away with the income tax in ISGO (Applau s e.) With a deficiency ot tire millions sterling, we had nu power to remit that tax ; but, by collateral measures, we have secured to the legisla ture in 1560 the power of saying freely whether they will part with the income tax or whether they will not, which I hope they Will not, ad ipt it as part of their taxation. (Applause.) Without any subterfuge or equivocation, I have endeavoured to place before you what we have done. We have endeavoured to make the cession of the income tax in 1860 a perfectly manageetee, instead of an unmanageable question, and to give the legislature of that period the power of exercising an unbiassed decision on the subject. (Hear, bear.) With regard to the pros perity of all classes of this country, I believe it is perfectly true that, though we have arrived now at a time when the price of grain has become very high, there is not, so far as I am aware, one single voice which has been raised in g end h p rho rice. (i i c e o a u r n . t h r y e u t ) th e ,r h o e t s h e e r h , i o g n u a m e u co rm un u t r, of fro th m at on h e i prices are paid with contentmens, because they are the result of the wisdom ot the Almighty,—of that in ch 'limey of weather which lie has seen fat to per mit ; and the intelligence of the people knows the cause, and there is no complaining; and I think it is not going too far to say, that there are many among us who are glad that the farmers, and especially these who are happy enough to have good crops upon the ground, havo got their turn at last. (" hear, hear," and applause.) But at any rate, setting aside partial and temporary excep tions, you are justified in speaking of the continued and increasing prosperity of all classes in this country ; and it is a great and gratifying fact—it is a fact to be contemplated with satisfaction, because it carries with it no necessary ad mixture of evil ; on the other haul, we have got rid of the causes which created opposition between the interests of classes, and which opposition, through the operaton of those causes, continually threatened more or less the peace, harmony, and goodwill ot the community. (Applause.) These have disappeared without injury to the progress of industry and wealth ; and 1 trust to God, that having permitted us to see the measures carried which hove pro moted that progress, we may likewise dwell upon it with satisfaction ; and the reason of that satisfaction, gentlemen, is, I trust, in this case not lessened by the last that those who were rich before have become somewhat richer. (Applause.) Much higher principles than that have been obtained by recent legislation, in regard to the accumula tion of wealth. That, no doubt, is the high and holy word, "If riches increase set not your heart upon them." It is not for that reason, therefore, that they, h icing aug mented the enjoyments of the wealthy classes, tl.at we con gratulate ourselves on the change that has been brought about. It is because of the operation of that charge upon nations, upon the relative attitude of the nations, and upon the condition of the community at large ; and I trust it will continue to tend to the advantage of the nations, and that their relative attitudes will be rendered mare peaceful by the opening up of the channels of commerce, as it will bring about a more constant intercourse, and thus tend to abate rivalry that has divided clad estranged the countries of Christendom from one another, and will beget sentiments of amity, and tend at least to obviate the necessity for those occasions when the sword has been drawn for the arbitra tion of national differences. (Cheers.) This is so far as respects the nation; but, as respects the commu nity at large, it is fur the interest of our own people that England's first duty must present itself to us. (Cheers.) Labour has been ordained as the right of man—and labour, when cheerfully performed, has the cha racter of a blessing, but in its operation at large it has the character of a burden that was opposed, as I may say, judi cially upon us. That burden has been lightened by recent legislation; and the cases we now hope will be rare when the soul of the English artisan and mechanic, and peasant, shall be borne down to the very earth by the grinding ne cessities of temporal possessions. (Cheers.) That legisla tion which limits its operations with the mere questious of pounds, shillings, and pence, or with the fruit of the earth and the productions of industry, ought rather to be con sidered in moral and social aspects, and social tenden cies, if it has to lighten the burdens which are inherent in labour, and if it has tended to deliver the spirit of man from the necessities which the body brings upon it. If it enables the father to make a more abundant provision for the needs of his wife and children; if it has given him time to relieve his limbs, and set his spitit free tor the contemplation of higher interests and higher objects— if these things have been done, and done we know they have been—it is a result in the promotion of which we have all borne a part, however insignificant, and we may take a deep and cordial pleasure in having so done. (Cheers.) For myself, the part I have borne is small. (No, no.) But I stand in the presence of a community who have had a great share in bringing about this beneficial—nay, I must call it this blessed change. Yet still it has been a change of that character which commonly belongs rather to the imagination to conceive, than to the understanding to em body, in practical measures, and to one statesman to bring into form and order. It has: been scattering " plenty o'er a smiling land," and we see the result of it, not only in the comfort which is displayed in your great community, but in the state of mind which prevails throughout Eng ' land ; in the true harmony which, though it cannot be realised in this world, yet comes nearer to our hope, and nearer within the range of human results, than ten or twenty years ago we could have ventured to have anticipated. Gentlemen, the community of Manchester may look back with satisfaction on the part it has played in promoting this great change in recent legislation —a change which has made great progress towards its con summation among ourselves; bat which we must recol lect has scarcely begun among other nations of the earth. But the wave which sets from this country will pass over the surface of the earth. In former times we have, lam afraid—if we go far back to the times of great glory England has been too ready with the warlike hand, and has set, we must admit, on some occasions, • bad example to the nations of the earth. (Hear, hear.) I trust she has now set a good one, and I trust she is destined to see the effects of that lesson in the legislation of other coun tries, gradually extending itself from place to place until the utmost that can be hoped for from its possible results shall have been accomplished. Yon, gentlemen, will enjoy a share of satisfaction in contemplating these results, such as perhaps no other local community can claim. As for me, and as for my own humble individual efforts, per fectly imperceptible in what they can produce, yet de pend upon it they carry with them their own reward in themselves, or if they did not carry with them their own reward, I should find an ample,and a far more than ample, recompense for any amount of toil and pressure they may entail in these documents which now lie before me— an augmentation of the spirit duty in Scotland and in Ireland; the second was au extension of the inccme tax in certain respects; and the third was the succession duty. Now, at the present moment, we have derived, I think, about the mere trifle, the drop in the water, of 10,0001. or 12,0001., from the extension of the income tax ; we have not derived up to the present moment consequent upon, or at least necessarily attending the transactions, one farthing yet from the new law as to the succession tax. The spirit duties alone have been in operation ; and it is ou that ac count I would point out to you that almost the whole of the reductions on taxes have taken full effect, and that, on the other hand, the principal sources to which we looked to supply the deficiency are not yet in practical operation. And I think that you will agree with me that under these circumstances the lamase in the revenue of the quarter is • most gratifying indication of the strength of our internal resources. (Applause.) That this is the cue with respect to the prosperity of the country is fully indicated by the revenue of the quarter. (Hear, hear.) There was a reference in the proceedings of the council to the subject of the paper duties. Gentle men, I would venture to tell you, although it is • confes sion that works against myself, that when public curiosity is excited in reference to measures that may in a future ses sion be adopted, you cannot possibly have a more inconve nient or more impracticable guest than a Chancellor of the Ethequer. (Laughter.) Gentlemen holding other offices under the crown may ordinarily enter into a tolerably free discussion, and may announce their intention to bring in this or that measure in a coming melon ; but although I never felt more disposition in my life to depart from a most salutary rule, I am sorry to say that the lips of the man who holds my unfortunate situation— (laughter)—are always hermetically sealed, until that particular day, hour, and moment arrive, when it is his duty to rise in the House of Commons and bring forward what is called the budget—(" hear," and laughter)— and, therefore, even on a subject like the paper duty, I am afraid I have very little to say. (Laughter.) However, this I will say—l had the pleasure of seeing in the ware hones of a gentleman now before me, yesterday, I bad the *wire of seeing that beautiful manipulation, for so it is, performed, which constitutes the process of packing goods for exportation ; and it was impossible not to observe in the package which was put in order before my eyes, a bale which, I believe, consisted of worsted intended for Madras (but that is not material)—it was impossible not to observe that there was a very considerable quantity of paper, I do not know whether there might not have been 101 b. or 15th. of paper in that package. That paper is liable to an excise duty of lid. per lb., and it was perfectly obvious to me, it needed no great exercise of the understanding to perceive that the lid. per pound laid upon the paper in the package might, so far as the practi cal operation of the - duty is concerned, as well have been laid on the commodities themselves. It has precisely the same operation, and, therefore, undoubtedly the principle which has led parliament to exempt the great manufactures of the country in themselves from the ex tremely impolitic and onerous operation of excise duties, is perfectly capable of extension, when the proper time arrives, and circumstances permit it—(laughter and applause)—is perfectly capable of extension to the material in which here staple manufactures are wrapped up. Now that really is all I have to say on the subject of the paper duties. It is stated in this address by the town council, that they hope to witness, as the result of the policy which we have advocated, the con tinued and increasing prosperity of all classes in this country. There is one reference in the address of the corporation that I must briefly notice, because it provoked a smile, not from me only, but from several others, at the address was read. It is here stated that we have re-enacted the income tax, with a clear and distinct understanding:that, at the expira tion of the renewed period for which it has been imposed, such tax ought te disappear. Now, gentlemen, in a very few words I will state exactly how I consider that that matter stands. For my own part, I have not in the least degree hesitated to declare my opinions respecting the income tax, to this effect, that it is impossible to reconstruct it, and that, it being impossible to reconstruct it, a sense of injustice and inequality in the minds of the community attends its opera tion; that the people of England have been found willing to submit to it, and probably may be found willing to submit to it, for the purpose of attaining great objects of policy, or of warding off national dangers ; but that on that account it is probably not well suited to form a part of our ordiaary system of taxation. That is my opinion with re gard to it ; but you are quite aware that any attempt to bind the parliament of 1860 would be ineffectual. The present par liament has made no such attempt. What the present parliameat has done is this. Knowing that pledges for the removal of the income tax would be delusive, knowing that they would form part of that system of public imposture, which I hope never will be admitted into the government of this country, vie., carrying on public affairs, and sup porting public administrations by promises, instead of by performanees—knowing that, genflemen, we never at ' tempted to ask parliament to bind a future parliament in regard to the untinuance of the income tax ; but what we did was this—we asked parliament to adopt positive measures for the reduction of the income tax, and in the time that is to elapse between 1863 and 1860, sad likewise for drawing from another source, namely, the succession tax, money which might in some degree re : place the deductions in the income tax ; we asked them by adopting these measures so to reduce the amount of the income tax, and so to shape the other fiscal itiOUION of the country, that, in all human probe- I bait', and, barring the calamity of general war, when the year 1860 arrives, the parliament of th at period would be (cheers) ;—and which have recorded the sense of this great community—the generous and intelligent sense—pushed beyond, I believe, what justice would warrant—C" no, no ")—but referable to kindly feeling—which record the sense of this great community in favour of those principles of leg.islation to which it has been my delight to lend a helping hand in the struggles of some past years; and to the maintenance of which, after viewing what I Lime seen to-day, I need hardly tell you I shall continue to be fondly and faithfully attached.—[The right hon. gentleman here resumed his seat, amidst enthusiastic and prolonged ap plause, the speech having occupied an hour and Live minutes.] The public proceedings then terminated, eta few minutes before 3 o'clock. THE DEJkILINEIt. Immediately on the separation of the meeting to present addresses to Mr. Gladstone, a portion of the company ad journed to the Mayor's parlour in the Town•hall, where a luncheon had been spread for about 80 gentlemen. INTEREST ON EXCHEQUER BILLS. The Lords of her Majesty's Trea - Bide, iv sury having determined that the Exchequer D... , issued under the authority of the following Acts of Parliament, vis. : 15 Vict., cap. 10, and 16 Vict. cap. 25, and which are now outstanding (except those on which the interest has ceased) shall, on and after this day (Oct. 11, 1853), bear an interest of two pence per diem : the holders of all such Ex chequer bills are to take notice, that whenever the same shall be paid off, or shall, according to the conditions of the said bills respectively, be received on account of any of the public revenues, aids, taxes, on supplies, the aforesaid rate of interest of two-pence per centum per diem will be allowed thereon, from and including the said 11th day of October, 1853. Paymaster-General's Office, 11th Oct., 1853. REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Lords of her Majesty's Tree missioners for rho sury having certified to the ...., reduc tion of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, Geo. IV., c. 27, tee. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year ended the sth day of July, 1853, amounted to the sum of 3,3f8,6211. Mi. Bd. . . '77 Ihe Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of 892,1561. 41. 2d., being one-fourth part of the said surplus of 3,568,6241. 16s. Bd. will be applied under the provisions of the said act, between the 11th day of October, 1853, and the sth day of January, 1854, to the following purposes, : To be applied towards the reduction of the National Debt 1892,156 4 2 Add interest receivable on account of do nations and bequests, to the purchase of 2,512 3 1 stock £894,668 7 3 A. Y. SPIARVAN, Camptrollor-o.neral. Notional Debt.office, Oct. 8, 1853. TILE PILCHARD FISIIERID3 IN CORNWALL.—At Mevartissey the leans are now all stopped, but last Tuesday the drift boats caught from 2,000 to 4,000 fine fish, which were sold at is. 6d. for 120. The seen fish are now being shipped, and have cold at 38s. per hogshead. At Newquay, a few days ago, a fishing smack enclosed a large shoal of pilchards, but the tide running high at the time, by the following morning they had all made their escape. There were several other shoals seen, but they were in too deep water to be enclosed by the semis—they appear to be going westward. There has been a large catch of pilchards at St. Ives during the week.—Shipping Gasetis. MA3I4 ANTONIA RAlLw4T.—Traffic for week ending September 29, 1853, 238 L Corresponding week, 1852, 249 L I