The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-18 00:00:00

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Price 7d.; Stumped Bd. !Mice, 4t3, Strand, Loudon. THE LL3JEHOUSE TRADED } The following letter was written byJohn Wiggins from the condemned cell at Newgate on Monday last : "Gaol of Newgate, 14th day of October, 1867. "My dear Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters, — I write these few lines to you with my kindest and affec tionate love to you all. Give my love to Maria and Fanny and all the children, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Mr. Groves and his wife. Give my kindest love to Anna and her husband, and my kindest lovo to my cousin William Few and his wife Hannah, and his son and daughter. I sm very well in health, thanks to the Almighty for His goodness and mercy towards us aIL My dear ii , otlier, I hope you are better when you receive this letter than I heard you were on Saturday. I sever wished yon good-bye when you left me last Thurs day, but I write now to wish you good-bye till we meet again, and that will be in the next world, where we shall be believed. They won't believe us in this world. My dear father and mother, I hope you will put your trust and confidence in the Almighty. I don't think He will pee yen want. I hope and t rus t H e w ill g i ve you b ot h health and strength to live, that you may see it come home to our enemies, which you know have so falsely sworn my poor dear life away. And that lamto go out of this world for a thing I never done, which you know quite well, and that is what grieves me to my poor dear heart and soul, that they shall say just what they liked, and all to be believed. My dear father and mother, I hope and trust that we shall all meet together in the next world, and then we shall be believed. They won't believe us in this. But thanks be to the Almighty God that I shall go out of this world an innocent man, and that is • great blessing for us all and our relatives and friends. I am to go out of this world to satisfy other people, but my poor death lays at their doors, and I hope and hope they won't rest before they all own it, and especially. So good-bye, and God bless you alL—I remain your affec tionate and loving son, " JOHN WIGGINS. " Thousands of kisses to you all, and as many times. " Monday evening, October the 14th, 1867. Good-bye all many times." INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC FOII:TTAIN AT DUDLEY.—yesterday this quiet town was the scene of a most interesting ceremony—one not likely to be soon for gotten. The inauguration by the Earl of Dudley of a public fountain (his own gift to this township) brought about the occurrence. Upwards of twenty thousand people were present, bands, artillery, yeomanry, volunteers, igc. The fountain stands nearly 30 feet high, and is enriched by sculptures illustrative of homely industry—mining, agri cultural, engineering, &c. Besides hernias for the use of the public, it has large troughs for cattle, and even small ones for dogs. A peculiar feature of its form is an arched dome, under which the principal jets are made to play. This dome receives light through coloured windows in the daytime, and from coloured lamps at night, a pleasant effect upon the water being thus produced. The fountain is constructed Of granite, stone, and marble, and covers a large area in the open centre of the principal thoroughfare of the town. The ceremony of yesterday morning consisted of addresses and speeches delivered by the corporation, by Lord Dud ley, Lord Lyttelton, and others, from a platform erected on one side of the fountain. After these were over, the water was made to play amidst general rejoicing, discharges of guns, scunding of music, lac., and the sculptor, Mr. James Forsyth, of London, handed over from the fountain the first cup of the pure liquid to the Countess of Dudley, who drank it to the health and prosperity of the popula tion. This cup is intended to be preserved as a souvenir of the day. A dinner to the principal inhabitants and an illumination of the fountain at night closed the festivities. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (aarrin's 7111G1tAMS.) THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL STATES. FLORENCE, OCT. 17. The Corriere Italian() announces the disembarks. tion yesterday of 230 Franco-Belgian volunteers, who are to be followed by other Spanish volunteers. AU the Papal forces in the province of Viterbo have received orders to concentrate themselves at Viterbo, where a quantity of provisions have arrived. The insurgent bands are still increasing in the neighbourhood of Lake Bolsena. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. BRUSSELS, Ocr. 17. The royal yacht Osborne with their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales on board started for her destination at half-put twelve to-day. AUSTRIA AND THE CONCORDAT. VIENNA, Ocr. 17. In this morning's sitting of the Lower House of the Austrian Diet, the President rose and addressed the house relative to the autograph letter which has been addressed by the Emperor to Cardinal Rausch. He said " The declaration made by the Emperor, that no course opposed to constitutional ism can lead to any result, and that henceforth there must prevail in Austria an entire freedom of conscience, and perfect peace in all religious matters, has caused a general shout of rejoicing to ring through the entire empire." The President then called upon the house to cry " Hurrah for the Emperor !" which was done three times with the utmost enthusiasm. Subsequently the third reading of the revised fundamental law of the constitution was adopted by 119 against 46 votes. THE CHANNEL FLEET. LISBON, Om 15, 3 P.M. The Channel fleet has arrived here from Cork. All well. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. PARIS, Ocr. 17. Intelligence received here from Monte Video from a Paraguayan source states that the Allied forces were in a state of complete inaction. Ten Brazilian iron-clads were hemmed in between the fortresses of Curupaity and Humaita. Curupaity was strongly reinforced. The bed of the river Paraguay was dammed up, all navigation being thus rendered impracticable. The land forces of the Allies were fortifying themselves in haste at Tuyuene (1), to the east of the entrenched camp of President Lopez. At Buenos Ayres a change had taken place in the ministry. The new ministers advocated a peace policy, in which they were supported by the press. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Ocr. 17. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes as com pared with the previous account : Incaassz. Bills discounted . . . fr. 18,500,000 Current accounts . . Notes Treasury balance . . . Advances DECREASE. 500,000 200,000 Cash . . fr. 4,200,000 AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Java, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 8 p.m. yesterday, with 139 cabin passengers and 13,698 dole. in specie. After landing 130 sacks of mails and some passengers she proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. (Per the Java via Queeantown.) NSW YORK, Ocr. 8, En?rm. Secretary M'Culloch has written a letter stating that he considers the faith of the national govern ment pledged to the payment of the 5-20 United States Bonds in coin. He believes that the bonds are not to be called in at the expiration of five years from their respective dates of issue, and that Congress will not be called upon to make further issues of legal tender. Mr. Spinner, the National Treasurer, emphatically denies the recent reports' of over issues of national securities. The debt of the United States on the Ist instant was 2,630,000,000 dols. There were 103,000,000 dols. in gold, and 30,000,000 dols. currency in the Treasury. The Attorney-General has furnished an opinion sustaining the action of the courts in the recent habeas corpus case in Philadelphia. Secretary Wells has in consequence ordered the writ to be obeyed. General Sherman has arrived at Washington, and has had an interview with President Johnson and General Grant. It is reported that the President telegraphed for him, and offered him the Secretaryship of War. The New York Herald states that some promi nent republicans are endeavouring to effect a com promise with Mr. Johnson. . . It is stated that the government will certainly be prepared to proceed with the trial of Mr. Davis on the fourth Monday in November. The democrats carried nearly all the municipal elections in Connecticut yesterday. General Sheridan has been enthusiastically received at Boston. A military escort and a torch light procession were formed in his honour. - Intlligence from Mexico reports that Baron von Magnus has returned to Mexico city. The royal commission, recently appointed to inquire generally into the administration of the law in the various courts of justice, it is understood will commence its sittings, under the presidency of Lord Cairns, early in November, and proceed with the examination of wit nesses forthwith. The inquiry is expected to last a con- siderable time. We understand that Mr. Lowe, M.P., hea accepted an invitation from the directors of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution to a dinner, on the occasion of his approaching visit to Edinburgh to deliver the opening address of the session 1867-68. The dinner is to take place in the Douglas Hotel on Saturday the 2nd November. BREAKFAST TO MR. WM. LLOYD GARRISON AT BIRMINGHAM.—Yesterday morning the National Freed men's Aid Union and the Birmingham and Midland Freed men's Aid Association gave a public breakfast to Mr. Was. Lloyd Garrison at Nock's Royal Hotel. Notwithstandialt a pelting rain 200 ladies and gentlemen were present. r. B. Gem, J.P., the chairman, Mr. Garrison, Mr. Geo. Thompson, the Rev. R. W. Dale, M.A., and other gentle men addressed the meeting. In the afternoon the Bishop of Ohio (the right rev. Dr. Mcllwaine) delivered a valuable address on the necessity and value of education for the coloured people. A public meeting in the town hall in the e vening, presided over by the mayor, was largely attended, and resolutions were passed in recognition of the industry and good conduct of the freedmen, and approving of the proposal to assist by subscriptions in establishing normal schools for training coloured teachers in the South. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1867. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN COI PARIS, THURSDAY Entrinta. The ministers assembled in council at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Palace of St. Cloud, under the presidency of the Emperor, all the minister; except M. Duruy being present. There is no truth in the statement of an evening paper that a meeting of the Privy Council had been called. With regard to the prolongation of the existence of the Universal Exhibition, which the Libert4 and some other journals stated was to remain open to tho public until the 17th of November, the Etendard says that no decision to that effect has yet been come to, at the same time intimating that such a step is in contemplation, and that the question will shortly be determined. Yesterday a young lady of rare beauty and dis tinguished manners, about 18 years of age, com m suicide by throwing herself from the summit of the column in the Place Vendome, and died in a few minutes. In her pocket were &rea ctions, written in pencil, that she should be con veyed to her mother, whose address in Paris was given, and the unfortunate girl at the same time bogged that the said catastrophe should be broken to her parent as gently as possible The cause which led to the rash act is not known, but it is said to be connected with a love affair. This is the second suicide within six weeks from the top of this lofty monument ; and it is somewhat singular that the unhappy lady fell precisely on the same spot within the rails where a young man who pre ceded her in the terrific leap was dashed to pieces. I The Bourse was much agitated to-day. The market opened badly, and went on from bad to worse. Tho action that would be taken by the French government in Italy was the subject of very general and excited discussion. The Bente, which opened at 67fr. 20c., closed at 66fr. 05c., a decline of 80c. Italians began at a fall of 70c., and finished with a further depreciation at 43fr. 40c. The value of all securities went down, without ex ception. BANQUET TO THE EARL OF DERBY AT MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY NIGHT. The grand banquet to the Earl of Derby and her Majesty's ministers, for which preparations on a grand scale have been so long made by the conservative party in Manchester, took place this evening in the Free Trade Hall. Covers were laid for 900 guests, and the galleries of the spacious hall, which was most tastefully decorated, were crowded with ladies connected with the leading con servative families of the county and city. The Countess of Derby was present. The Hon. A. EGERTON, M.P. for South Lancashire, presided. Mr. W. R. Callender, jun., and Mr. Hugh Birley occupied the vice-chairs. The guests at the principal tables, in addition to the noble Premier, who sat on the right of the chairman, were the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, H.P., Sir John l'akington, M.P., the E►rl of Mayo, M.P., Lord J. Man ners, M.P., the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., the Bight Hon. J. Mowbray, M.P., the Earl of Wilton, Earl Vane, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord Ernest Vane, Sir J. Fergusson, M.P., Sir J. H. Maxwell, Sir Thomas Hesketh, M.P., the Solicitor-General for Scotland, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, Sir J. Yorke Scsrlett, Meson. E. C. Egerton, M.P., S. R. Graves, M.P., Charles Turner, H.P., Colonel Taylor, M.P., Colonel Gray, MY., Joseph Fielding, M.P., G. Greenall, M.P., N. Bakersley, H.P., Hon. F. Stanley, M.P., W. H. Hornby, M.P., Viscount Nevill, Sir J. Garvock, Messrs. H. C. Racks, W. B. Ferran& Admiral Hornby, Rev. Canon Hornby, the Areh deacon of Manchester, Messrs. T. C. Wilkinson, C. A. Steward, W. S. Sawyer, Joseph Fenton, Thomas Matter, H. Gartride, James Tyre, Wil liam Gibb, R. S. Bowler, Q.C., C, Temple, Q.C., T. W. Tattoo, \V. J. Legh, J. W. Maclere, John Monk, Q.C., General the Hon. James Lind say, Colonel Wroughton, and the Rev. Canon Birch. The noble Premier and his colleagues on taking their seats were received with several rounds of enthusiastic applause. The usual loyal toasts having been proposed from the chair, and enthusiastically responded to, the Chairman proposed " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers." Sir JOHN PAKINUTON acknowledged the toast on behalf of the army. The Earl of SHREWSBURY also in replying to the toast said, that as an independent member of the House of Lords he considered the course taken by the noble earl st the head of the government with respect to reform as most patriotic and honourable, and he, for one, gave him hearty thanks for it. The whigs having failed to redeem the pledges which they had put into the month of the sovereign, it became the imperative duty of the noble earl to try and redeem those pledges, and to retrieve the good faith of par liament. In that attempt the noble earl and his colleagues had most happily succeeded. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of the evening— " The Health of the Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of England." The toast was drank with great enthusiasm ; and The Earl of DERBY, on rising to respond, was received with a perfect ovation, the whole assembly, including the ladies in the side galleries, rising en masse, and waving hand kerchiefs and favours. The noble earl proceeded to ex press his regret at the absence of his colleague (Mr. Disraeli) to whose tact, temper, and judgment the success of the arduous undertaking of last session was mainly owing. With regard to his (Lord Derby's) action during the cotton famine there were many others to whom gratitude was much more due, as they could less easily afford the time. The sympathy of the manufacturers and ' the patience of the hands during that period had struck him as • matter of peculiar consolation. Coming to poli tical subjects the noble earl said that the liberal party had for years and years been talking about reform, but " Unhappily, their efforts have been confined to talk.' The conservatives had never, as a body, been opposed to a safe and liberal measure of reform. He complained that the late government did not fix on any definite principle on which to establish reform, and that they made the mis take of imagining they had the power of driving the Holm. of Commons into the adoption of their measure. Having alluded to the circumstances under which the present go vernment abandoned their minor and inferior measure and adhered to that larger and infinitely more satisfactory one, which, be was happy to say, was now the law of the land, the noble lord proceeded to express his conviction that the wage-paid classes are loyal to the throne and in stitutions of the country. They would rise as a man to defend the throne—they did not desire, as • body, to subvert an established church, which of all establishments ' known on the face of the earth is the moat tolerant and the most liberal—they had a deep respect for old esta blished families—they did not desire to alter the constitu- tion of the House of Lords—and they entertained a deep appreciation of the legislative wisdom of the House of Com mons. His lordship then proceeded to warn the working classes against returning special representatives to parlia ment or entertaining any expectation that parliament would pass any measure attemptieg to regulate the rate of wages. " Don't let me be misunderstood," continued the noble earl, " I am no adversary or opponent of trades unions. I think that confined to their legitimate object they are useful and salutary instruments for maintaining the rights of the labouring classes — (cheers)—and 43 years ago I was a member of the House of Commons which first recommended and succeeded in carrying the abolition of those laws which made it illegal for workmen to agree to combine together not to work under a certain amount of wages. I therefore hope that what I say may be understood as not proceeding from one who desires to oppress the work ing men. I say chat even strikes, objectionable as they are in principle, and injurious as they are to the working classes, are not an illegitimate or illegal mode of proceed ing ; I say that if capital and labour cannot agree toge ther, the only mode of bringing them together is the absence of one or the other—the capital to employ the labour, or the labourer to give the capital. I go further, and I say that so long as trades unions are charitable associations, and their contributions go to the relief of those who are thrown out of work by no fault of their own, they are unobjectionable and meri torious ; but from the disclosures we have recently heard it appears the y have gone far beyond those acts. Ido not mean to refer to those gross acts of intimidation, picketing, rattening, and acts leading to murder ; they are seta which no persons will defend, and the members of tholes' unions themselves shrink from acknowledging their par tieipation in them. (Hear, hear.) I say that these 1101041iL• tions go beyond their limits when they agree not only themselves not to work, but to prevent and intimidate other persons from working. For my own part, looking to the public and private interests of the members, I cannot for the life of me understand how English workmen, entitled to make the most of their own industry and science, can submit to the tyranny under which they are groaning. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the whole course of our legislation for the last, I won't say how many years, has been a protest against class legislation. It has been an argument in favour of the free admission of all foreign goods ; an argument in favour of free trade ; an argument opposed to all class protection. Wh►t would you say if in this city of Manchester government were to impose, as in continental cities, an octroi duty on the importation of every article of agricultural produce ? The whole city would be in an uproar ; and yet you submit to the bye. laws of associations which say that not only shall a tax be paid, but not • single brick shall be laid in Manchester that is imported—not from a foreign country—from beyond a single district—even beyond the breadth of a canal. We are speaking here in the Free Trade-hall. What do you say of bye-laws which say that not a stone shall be worked in a quarry to save an enor mous additional amount of labour in carting it to the place where it is to be deposited, but that it shall be brought in bulk and worked by the workmen, and if it should have been worked in the quarry, then the farce is to be gone through of working it again by workmen in Manchester ? If this system is to prevail, what is to be conic of our threshing-machines and our steam ploughs, our mowing and reaping machines! You would have to resort to your old flail and other oboe tete implements, and in manufactures to old hand-loom weaving : you would have to do away with the power•lmm FRENCH INTERVENTION IN SUPPORT OF ROME. The following telegrams were received last night at Mr. Reuter's office : PAWS, Ocr. 17, Evianwo, The Opinion Nationale of this evening publishes an article by M. Gueroult in which he says :—" It is with grief we learn that a Roman expedition is resolved upon, and probably already in course of being accomplished. We consider the belief that such a step will make Italy recede from her present position an illusion. Public opinion in Italy has reached such a point that Victor Emmanuel cannot draw back without imperilling his crown and monarchical institutions." The Prease states that at the council yesterday M. de Lavalette proposed a combined occupation of Rome by France and Italy, who would both leave the Papal States when the Garibaldians should have been expelled. M. Rouher is said to have demanded the execution pure and simple of the September convention. The same journal states that at the council to be held to-day the course to be pursued by France is to be finally decided. The Pattie of this evening publishes an article signed by M. Dreole in which it says :—" We have recognised the loyalty and energy shown by the cabinet of Florence in arresting Garibaldi. We have not doubted the sincerity of Signor Rattazzi in condemning Garibaldi's incessant provocations to rebellion against authority ; but it is incontest able that the first energy of the Florence cabinet has diminished. We witness for the last fortnight the strange spectacle of an army of 50,000 men showing itself insufficient to stop the openly armed invaders of the Papal terri tory. It is impossible that such a state of things should last. It is necessary to take a prompt and energetic resolution. The honour of Italy requires it ; the signature of France exacts it. Assailed by men whom the population repel, and whose doctrines they repudiate, is the Pon ' tifiaal government able to resist by force of arms ? We still hope so, but we shall no longer dare to believe it if the violation of the Roman frontier continues to take place to-morrow in the same manner as it does to-day. Either the Italian government tolerates this violation, or it is impo tent to arrest it. If it tolerates it, the question of right and honour governs the situation. The con vention bears two signatures ; in default of the one, the other must cause it to be respected. If, on the contrary, the Florence govern ment is unable to prevent the violation of the Papal territory, then it ought to azk France to aid it in defending its signature and its honour. This is the reasoning of all impartial and sincere minds. We say it, therefore, without hesitation— : events require Italy to come to a decision. It is for the cabinet of Florence to say whether Gari baldian filibustering is to vanquish authority and law, and whether revolutionary intrigues are to triumph over monarchical resistance. For France the question cannot be ono for long discussion. We demand then a solution ; either Italy deter mined, united with France and armed with the treaty of September, or France alone vindicating in the name of contracted engagements, in the name of order and society, the right of rescuing Rome and Italy from revoi..iou and anarchy." The Patrie also states that an active exchange of notes is taking place between Paris and Florence. The council of ministers deliberated yesterday upon questions of foreign policy, and will examine to-day questions relating to home affairs. Prince Napoleon went to-day to St. Cloud. PARIS, OCT. 17, 10.45 r.m. • Great anxiety prevails on the Boulevards this evening in consequence of the article of the Patrie, and that of the Opinion Nationale, announcing the expedition to Rome as an absolute fact. Bentea were quotod at 66.80, 66.65, and 66.70. New ANNJITHETIC.—A new and valuable agent, whereby surgical operations are painlessly performed, without the risk which has hitherto attended chloroform, has just been discovered, and freely published for the public good, by Dr. Richardson, in an account of two severe operations by Mr. Spencer Wells. In the current number of the Afedieml Times it is stated that in the first case perfect insensibility was produced in four minutes, in the second case in about six minutes ; in both instances the patients glided, so to speak, into complete stussthesis without a struggle. This valuable remedy is the bi aboiride of methylene, which differs from chloroform in the rapidity with which it produces perfect insensibility. In one ease where it was need in a warm room the vapori. cation of the fluid was so rapid that frost was produced on the inhaler. [STAMPED, li. ADDITIONAL] and all those old inventions of genius which, while they , have multiplied to an indefinite amount the productive , capitalof the country, have at the same time multiplied to an extent almost equally indefinite the amount and , number of persons employed. I say that the British work man would do well seriously to consider these things. Let me add that I have now been for 42 years a married man, and let me advise workmen when in difficulty to consult their wives. (Cheers and laughter.) If the workmen aro the bread winners, their wives are the bread manager., and let them ask their wives and children, if they can answer for themselves, what they think in the long run they have gained from those strikes which they have car ried on with so much perseverance and so much loss— greatly to the advantage of those who apply the strings and manage the puppet. (Cheers.) It is • great disad vantage to the honest man who is only desirous of making the most of his industry, for such a man is prohi bited from turning his own skill to his advantage. Can there be a greater restriction upon the labouring men? What is the capital of the labouring man? It is his labour, and really if these societies are to prevent a man from making the most of his labour it is simply to put the idle, the indolent and the worthless upon the same footing as the intelligent and industrious, and to bring all labour down to a dead level, and to increase the expense of all work that depends on that labour, not only by increased wages, but also by the uncertainty which prevails on the part of every contractor as to his power of executing a contract, and the necessity of charging higher prices, because he may be deprived of the services of those upon whom he relies. The last objection and the gravest I have to offer is against the tyrannical power exercised by these associations. They prevent that which is moat impor tant in this country, the conlial union between the employers of labour and the employed. What interest can a man have in the welfare and well-being of those he employe if whatever pains he takes to make them comfortable, what ever mestanos he has given them, he is liable at the dic tation at any moment of some person 100 miles off, and of whom he knows nothing, to find the whole of his workmen leave him, it may be with pain and deep regret, but, ►t the rune time, under a tyranny they are obliged to obey ? If there MI one thing inimical to the well being of this as a great country, it is that capital and labour cannot puma- Neatly be dissociated. If labour exacts too much eras capital, capital will seek employment elsewhere. If them penes' of any one branch are carried so far that we we unable to meet the competition of other countries, capital will fly to those foreign countries, foreign workmen will displace British workmen, and ultimately the British workman will find that he has achieved • success which will be his absolute ruin. One word now upon the other aide of the question, and let me say this is peculiarly a moment which the employers of labour should seize for cultivating the best understanding with those whom they employ. (Cheers.) I believe the working classes are awaking to a fuller sense than they have yet had of the claims of capital, and that nothing has contributed to that result more than the esta blishment of co-operativo societies. (Loud cheers.) I believe that they have done very great good, not only in establishing amongst the members of habits of frugality 1 and order, but in teaching them to estimate the claims of capital and labour, and I have seen with great satisfaction an instance of the satisfactory working of the system in the case of the Staveley Colliery, where a certain amount of the surplus profits raised by the labour of the workmen em ployed on the establishment is returned to them, and they are given an interest in the success of their employers. Looking at the necessity of keeping secret the mode of pro cedure of most of our great mercantile houses, Ido not think that the system can be generally extended, but wherever it an be adopted, and the persons employed can feel an interest in the success of the employer, then you will do more than by any other possible means to coun teract the effects of these unions or societies, which endea vour to set class against class, and to create Merin amongst all aliases. I have • thousand apologies to make for having detained you so long, but I wished to set before you plainly what I thought with regard to the Reform Bill. Although some hazard might be supposed to attend the Passing of so large a measure, I look forward with great confidence to the result. I have great reliance on she good sense of my countrymen, and I am not at all alarmed at the result ; but standing in the position I do, responsible to • great extent for the adoption of the measure, I have felt myself justified in having availed myself of the oppor tunity of offering a timely warning for the consideration of all those who must ultimately be interested in its suc cess. Time will not permit rue to refer to the foreign policy of the country—(cheers)—but your approval of that policy is more gratifying to roe be cause the minister who has presided over that depart ment is my own immediate relation. (Loud cheers.) Permit me to say a word with respect to a report which has obtained considerable currency in the newspapers, and which has led to frequent speculation, that it is my inten tion immediately to tender to the queen the resignation of the office which I have the honour to hold. (No, no.) Now, gentlemen, I have not the slightest intention of doing so. (Cheers.) At a critical period like the present I should feet it was an act of base dereliction of duty to my sovereign and to those who have done me the honour to give me their support if I were to shrink from the responsibilities attached to my position—(cheers)--at my time of life, with the increasing frequency of those attacks which from time to time unfit me for the dis charge of public business, it is impossible that I can look forward to any very lengthened period of public service ; but I have no present intention of relinguishing the posi tion which I hold by the favour of my sovereign and the support of the great conservative party. (Cheers.) When ever I retire from that office, I trust that I shall have the satisfaction of doing so with the conviction that I have endeavoured honestly and faithfully to discharge my duty to the country at large ; that I have not in any case allowed political differences and animosi ties to interfere with personal friendship, and above all that I have in no respect forfeited the confidence, the good opinion, and the esteem of that great and in fluential party—never more great and influential than it is at the present moment—which it his been my honour to lead for so many years. (Cheers) Permit me before I conclude to offer to your acceptance a toast, in regard to which I am sure that you cannot have the slightest hesitation. It is the health of my hon. friend who has so worthily tilled the office of our chairman this evening. (Cheers.) Be comes of a family which for generations has been connected with this county, and I am quite sure that he has discharged to your satisfaction the important duties devolving upon a representative of the southern division of Lancashire. The noble earl then resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compliment. Mr. Huen BIRLRY then proposed the health of Lord Stanley. Lord STARLIT, who on rising to reply was received with cheers which lasted for several minutes, said—Even if I should hope to make myself heard by more than a small fraction of this large assembly, I could not attempt to do that which I feel and know to be impossible. I could never embody in words the gratitude and pleasure which I cannot but feel at the reception which you have given us to-night—a welcome so kind, so friendly, and so cordial— • welcome to be doubly prized, because it conies from neighbours amongst whom I have lived, and from political friends with whom I have long acted—from Lancashire men, of whom lam proud to call myself one — from citizens of this great industrial community, who not only on this but on many previous occasions have done us so much honour. (Cheers.) I stand before youto-night in two capacities—one as a member of that House of Commons which has lately carried through a great and important change in our political institutions ; in the other, as a minister of the crown charged with the anxious and laborious duty of conducting the foreign relations of the country. In neither capacity is it my inten tion to trouble you with more than a few words. Whatever I might have ventured to say upon home topics has been already anticipated by the head of the govern ment, and I shall not weaken by repetition anything that he has told you. All I will say is, that we have dealt with reform under circumstances of great and peculiar diffi- culty ;but lam sure that we have done that which was the best for the interests of the country, and, as I think, the best for the interests of the piety. If I had thought [TWOPENCE otherwise, however close, however binding the ties which connect me with the present administration, you would not have seen me here, or heard of me as connected with the government. (Cheers.) I look at what we have done without alarm. I have no doubt that the new parliament will bring with it some new ideas, such as a legal reform, administrative reform, edu oational reform, and reform in some other of the depart meats. Many of them, let me say, I think require it, although it need not be contrary to the well-known prin ciples of the constitution, or contrary to the national in tench; and feelings of the wealthier cleans of society. I do not believe that there is in England any purely levelling feeling, and I do not believe that there is any jealousy or envy of wealth and station ; that is a sentiment utterly alien to our habits and national tendencies. What Englishmen ask for is an open career and the power to rise—they do rise, and no where more frequently then in these districts. (Cheers.) Let me now say one word with respect to the affairs of the department with which I am chiefly con cerned. I can assure you that, as far u England and English interests are concerned, our foreign rela tions stand upon • thoroughly sound footing. In Europe we have nothing even approaching to a quarrel or • dispute with any power whatever ; and with regard to the United States, although we have not suc ceeded in finally closing that controversy, which originated during their civil war, yet we have dealt with that ques tion, I will venture to may, in • fair and friendly spirit ; and I believe that already the great peessinaker; has done much to soften and allay those feelings of irrita tion which undoubtedly at one period prevailed against us. (Cheers.) As to the state of the continent, I cannot say that there is no cause for the distrust and uneasiness which so generally prevail. The future is uncertain ; the sky is not fire from clouds, but I have faith enough in the good sense both of nations and their rulers to believe that the great crime and folly of a needless war will not be com mitted. If unfortunately I should be wrong lam sure at least that the English people will be unanimous in their condemnation of those parties by whom, whoever they may be, such a quarrel is provoked. (Cheers.) The peace of Europe is an English interest, and we shall do everything in our power to preserve it, for to endager it is to endanger that which is even nearer and dearer to us—l mean the peace of England. In the course of the evening reference has been made to the unfortunate Abyssinian business. My right hon. friend the Secretary for War spoke of it as • national necessity, and then with somewhat of pleasure. I must say that I cannot look upon llt in that light. I regard it as a very unpleasant matter, and I have no doubt that my right hon. friend, if he was not Secretary for War, and speaking on behall.of the profession, would him self agree with me. It is most unlucky that the folly of a semi-civilised man should compel us to embark in • ' distant and costly expedition, although I may say th►t in all probability the cost of that expedition has been considerably exaggerated by popular report, but I entirely ' concur with my right hon. friend that in this matter we had no option. Her Majesty's envoys have been insulted, ' imprisoned, and loaded with chains; all possible means of obtaining their release have been exhausted. We have taken some steps which hardly became the position ' and power of the country in order to obtain the result we desired without resorting to extreme measures. We feel ' that we had only two alternatives, the one to attempt their release by force, the other to let them die in captivity. We have made our choice, and we intend within the next few weeks to ask parliament and ' the country whether we have acted rightly, and it is without fear and without doubt that we await the answer of the English people. We shall go back to our work en , couraged by your kindness and fortified by your approval, and I hope and trust that you will never regret the confi ' deuce you have reposed in us. The next Meats were " The Howse. of Lords and Commons," which were respectively responded to by the Earl of Wilton and Lord John Manners. The Earl of DERBY then gave the health of Colonel Wilson Patten, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in so doing spoke in warm terms of his public and private character, acknowledging that the support which he had given to government had materially enabled it to surmount the trials and difSculties of last session. Mr. J. W. MACLURE proposed " The Guests," for which the Earl of DIALMESBURV returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the Counter of Derby, which was received with a tremendous outburst of cheers and other demonstrations of res, The Hon. F. STANLEY, M.P.. acknowledged the toast. The Earl of DERBY proposed "The Conservative and Constitutional Associations," which he was glad to find were being so extensively formed by the working classes. Mr. Toucturcxx responded, and several other toasts brought the proceedings to a close. The Earl and Countess of Derby, on leaving the Free Trade Hall with the other members of their family, met with a most enthusiastic demotstration from a large crowd, chiefly composed of the working classes, who had assem bled outside the building, and waited there a considerable time, in order to pay them this special mark of respect. Lord Stanley also was enthusiastically cheered—the Mile demonstrations were paid along the route to the rail way station, whence the noble Premier and his family left by special train for Knowsley. Trip. HERRING HARVEsT.—Mr. John Mackie writes to the Ti 111471 from Wick, not only with the news of • productive herring harvest in those northern seas, but with an assurance supported by all Ins knowledge and expe rienoe that this fishery, whatever may be our draughts upon it, will never be less productive than it is. That, as least, is hie conclusion, justified, as he thinks, by the sta tistics of a generation and the history of half-a-dozen cen turies. At any rate, we are assured of this—that the sensor of 1807 bas been better than any sinoe 1862, and so retimuera tire as to be mattarof real gratulation. The fishing boats of the sanorthern counties of Scotland have taken this year about 380,000/. worth of herrings. These fish when cured won't: . fill some 370,000 barrels, and would in that state be worth perhaps 550,000/. In this catch upwards of 3,000 boats were engaged, and nearly 30,000 persona found employ ment in the work either afloat or ashore. But these figures tell only half the tale. The herring fishery is pur sued, though on a somewhat smaller scale, along the east and west coasts of Scotland, and at the Orkney and Shet land Islands. If we add the returns thus forthcomi, g to those already given, we shall find, it is said, an aggregate harvest for the year of the value of • million sterling. THE EXHIBITION WORN Our.—There in now something dismal about the Great Exhibition building and its surrounding garden, at least for those who remember it accompanied by sunshine, bustle, and gay toilettes. No matter what section of the world's fair you enter, busi ness seems to have nearly ceased, and the principal show men are away. Many of the stalls are left to the guardian. ship of persons who are simply there to see that goods are not taken away. As for commissioners they are no longer to be found, and in most instances no one is left to give information or contract for sales. Every one seems to be tired of the Exhihition. There is an air of 1-want.to get.away in the faces of people on duty, and one fancies that the objects exposed want to pack themselves up and be off. Go into the pianoforte and musical instru ment departments, and observe bow languid and indifferent is the playing of the artists employed to execute difficult music, in order to show the tone and power of the said in struments. There are no gentlemen now to take down the giant brass horns, or get up on ladders and give them a puff. The musi cal instrument cases are shot up and de serted. The organs go off into melody aoraudonally. but they seem to play sulkily. No polite world to try a harp ; nothing but gaping country people in all directions. The Turks and Tunisians sleep on their sold carpets and divans ; Spain is depopulated ; the guardians of the Italian court are dead beat and cannot answer questions. Officialsare now like the players of a drama which they have played 2s/0 nights —they are overcome, and some of them look mehuscholy. The central garden is very thinly populated, the principal company being the dumb crowds of unoccupied chairs. There is something sad in the appearance of so many empty yellow iron seats ; they, too, look as if they wanted to get away and make themselves useful again. Perhaps the meet melancholy people of all are the foreign pi-mimeo of royal or government property. Their business kw been to look and watch only for months, and not to speak. The expression of the countenance of these official Exhibi tion victims is painfully vacant, as if the monotony of their occupation had exhausted the mind. They appear as if they would never smile again.—L , no. from Pun,. CROYDON STOCK MARKET.—This market was fully supplied yesterday, and sales were effected at the following prices, at per stone and sinking the offal : Sheep, choice Southdown wethers, 4s. led. to be. . • West Kent ditto, 4s. Bd. ; and coarse sheep, 3s. 10.1. to is. 4,1. Pigs, 3s. 10.1. to 4s. Bd. ; and stores, 13e. to 21m. a bead. • ;