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the power becomes t effectual m y, The —whether the most nthropists •ations are I the Ala- war must theories, strain the ge to the uuiversal ty on the Lire, there and coui nut Ice or .Dot :•ivateering UlliVerS at led ship Of , although tr from 3 the colours to nations, er entered. York, Pr °- istian is such 3 est he has t he may, If a she et he be but l he would 710tiC Eng' a conside [List British derate Go .' with the their paltri pense of the Angle to all. It Sot be per' ttleatent of clear state' aritime na ag property learn that a bearing a we believe ken E n gliP. Alabaula'3 others wer e )ng, writ vhile event 3 Elgs again st !, until We i is hurry 50 i instance of d the oppo r ' iend of that Through t he a RUSSELL s he war. might 1 331 " ons and pre' eising an in' on politcne," stead of th ls l ' e nglish Pec l i to y country rbarians• ill-advise )erations n eap King TI I S ° ; time by tb Internatioell' n Times• iSt, 20. 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Pills ren 3o ir d every 03 ,7 ' 01 um an bodr a se: o 1, but pert;iect $ sci P e r! g i f 3se search' $ L doubt the I rttl' Tj R e valenta san ds of b it ' d. ) position ll tie flo Holiness, wr y it after te 00 ,5 „ f ro m the `, o ,p o tt ce, aban jpf irely to .1111,400.0 ,nsumes 11 4,,e0P Fising l Y 'ise cannot P ra rost iy , A a ce vi r ettisA )f the lu z a . , at, vrastx ,, ,er , ;ation all r °l ) lB,Y, oa t intolc d. in de Ve cl • Ne• gle'd pepsie• ~n o o ri-,,„esEtvc" Isms, sie• — soir o df Mr. James of ti l l (. 8 s pittiug, oo 6 o .o o a k i torta nt sloPPY;„ot same is m" 0 1 1 0 A lino , Es. 6d:; - i iiii; • - A co., tx a, aY an , ... • G eo ;:‘, %son, 182 Pl o d and 6 3 cl 2, 00- 1 ta __ -- - A jOi l° " L. Dirs. —ll A 0 / ll 3utherla" -t eol i ' Esq., af Wee' ;ton-plac e, of a $(11' heO t c.i od d at Mane tnehester, Brogdev, o '3 j lt' t St. j a n e f r ; j i° dest Warvviclotep In. 011a rleS eoonty. Or ° g j 315 gnere- iji• (4,18. 1 oge; ti dy squa re, P 9 v ,peiefico lias• ,Live u 0 1,06° ~,a bad. o p' 0 1 Zec tto oar w rister-air 0 1) 9 101 LLIA OW e 0 34 " 1 14 0 t he Q° FrErb Covent -garden Opera—EVANS' 61:P. After Drury-lane Theatre IVANS' to SUP. After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre ]'VANS' to SUP. • After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. _44on Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND• LUNCHEON BAT?, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &e. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, &C. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine P.m. to One a.m. Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXIIII3ITION, 1865. Tuts celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, Is. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Rad Seal, Pittk Label, and Cork "Sins han's han's LL Whisky." MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, ISM, 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, AD VANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property. for one, two, or three yea's, repay able weekly, monthly, cr quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. T H E OXFOR D, 6. OXFORD-STREET, W. • During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta. ORPHEE AUX }INFERS and LA. TROVATORF. Principal artistes : Misses Russell. Rivers, an I Fitzlienry ; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and 1)e Brenner. Full Band and chorus Instru , entalists : Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY. &a • by the LEVIT ES, Miss and Mr. IP -I STER, HARRY SYDNEY, FRED. FRENCH, Mr. H. RICHARDS; and Miss KATE S A NTLEY. _Mr F. W. MACK Nil Y in a few days. STODARE'S MARVELS of MAGIC THIS EVENING Conductor, Ar. F. Jonghmans. Private boxes, los. M. ; stalls. becony, and grand pro rneuade, ls.- -THIS EVENING. 11ADAM:E 1 USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, 1 BAKER-STREET. A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL f THEODORE, King of Abyssinia, is now added ; also all the Kings and Queens of England, American Celebrities, Ac. Room of Horrors. )pen from I a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Ad mittance, Is. ; children, under ten, cd. ; extra rooms. 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. 11. BIGNELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN Tor the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Moses.; Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past S. Admission, ls. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. WE ST ON' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. All the Comic Stars engaged. The Great LINGARD'S new Statues, King Theodore and Sir Robert Napier, at 9.30 ; HARRY LISTON, Nobody's Child, at 10.45; the BROTHERS DANIELS, th e renowned Musical Clowns. Immense Success of GEORGE ELLIS, the Australian Comic ; STEAD (the Cure), Miss NELLY CORRI, Serio Comics KATE GAR STONE and NELLY MOON, the Marvellous ALMON TE DELEVANTE and DELEVANTE, Signor LERONI (from the Hippodrome, Paris), and H. Baker's superb band of 30 performers, Every Evening. Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d. Private Boxes, lOs 6 d., can be secured at the Office. Doors open at seven, commence at half-past seven. P. CORRI, Musical Director. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily Produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. Gd.. ss. 6d., and 1 . Os. 6d.; sent by post for .54, 84, and 144 stamps,—ALEX. ROSS 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. "Tale of a Hair," Gd. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CIIIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, re moving the very root. Price 45.; sent by post for GO stamps.- 248, High Holborn London, and all Chemists. Faco Powder, Is. WAIII-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 38 . (Li., Is. 61.. and 105. Gd.; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. .-11 ad of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour I mmediately it is used, It is permanent, and perfectly natural in effect. Price 3s. 6(1., Is. 6d., and 10s. 6,1; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 "tamps; and all Chemists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 61. TAIR DESTROYER.— 248, High Holborn, .-14. London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes super latous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the 81,1 n. Price 3s. 6d., Is. 6,1., and 10s. 6d.; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps,—Mad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 61 PIMPLE REMOVER. All diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TAI3LE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, fie. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 so,mps.—ALEX. BOSS, 248 , High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. IFIAIIt COLOUR WASH. —By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or tell days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by occasional using. 10s. &L; sent rot stamps.—ALTS ROSS, ' lB , High Holborn, London, an 1 all Chemists. IJust published, 2d. ;- sent by the author for 3 stamps, T GLINESS and BEAUTY ; bein g a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving th e tpPearance. By ALEX. ROSS. 248, High Holborn. Londoz. ad of all booksellers. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as- Inkstand of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, ipkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., Its ,uan, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. '''PiPorted and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, 31ineralo- Cist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W. 0., L ondon. u ltr. Tennant arrange elementa collections of R tion OCKS, VLINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate ry the new edi of Mrell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate the in teresting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRA.CTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and NINE. .ALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. F.G.S.. at 149. Strand. O.REAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. Thie Hospital has relieved 481,951 patients since It wag estab ushed at King's-erosa in 185 e. Patients are admitted free. st attuke rs — Measrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard-stree t t a Tirs. Ransom and Bouve rie 1, Pall-mall.—Hon. Sec., F. Smith, Gso. Ram. Rea. ORITISIE ORPIIAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie ~ Park . Slough, Bloke (formerly at Clapham-ri se ). Insti -"ed, 1827. „AidPatron—Hor Most Gracious ALLTESTY the QUEEN. to this Institution will be gladly received by the Secretary, e offices, No. 72. Chei.p.sule, E.C. HENRY S. THORNTON, Treasurer, TuomA3 TILSON, J.P., Chairman of the Bout. STEPHEN R. CATTLEY, M.A., Hon. Sec. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. lIPIIE BOARI) of MANAGEMENT of the 5 1 , „ LONDON HOIIIEOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to call the attention b uleir friends to ;tit position. During the past year the beds 0 ;1, 1 been almost c 3 D,tautly tilled, and the drain on the resources t o Qe Hospital has con•ec veruly been great. They trust, there je, that all tb.c frien,:s of hont.eopathy, both in town and cotm ,'2', 'Rill rail/ round them, awl thus prevent the necessity of r'tailing the usefulnass of the Hospital by the admission of a Nver It Patients. Subscriptions earnestly requested. Bankers—. e sre. Prescott and Co., Threadnoedig•streot, and Union Bank. g 7ll- Placo, Regent-street. --...._ 1i 0 052, Groat Ormond-streetl 11 W.0.W.0. 3°R. WARREN' Clerk; bRES'T'ORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. ir BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Invalids and Infanta' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA di e s et,":utty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect ale. --° "els, strong nerves, sound lungs, health liver, refreshing or e l ; functional regularity, and energy to th e_ most disordered kDe Ufe ebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion tas k 's), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, tI - "ces, all metric derangements, luemorrhoids, liver cona a..i.ets, flatulen - cy, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, vuth • 14ens, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and . ears, titaatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hteria nemh•aela Pre gia ir tieb a l l itY, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heart burn, . ItY, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness . even in Of t veuey or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness ee cheat, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the e • ilid .rs• It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, T..eultable for invalids and infants in all complaints. orI'ORTANT CAUTloN.—Bewaro of the many unsavoury arno: 1.4 1 ,1 than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, ti r ,` l3 name is most audaciously attached. tari t l e sforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Dn Poj 5 Yealthestoring Revalenta Arabica . , Invalids and r l e n e f e an ve ts_' fre,;, 4 , suace to the thousands of blessings it has already i d • arvalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we m ay p et rfesetld, that of his Ho li ness the Pope, whose health has been No••T restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical • siept. We q uo t e f rom th e "G aze tt e d u Midi," July 25th (Cure '', 0 411,, - ,1' 13 );—" Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Holy ules he ir, excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme - Ar a br ass confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta It.ha has Food, of which be consumes a plateful at every meal. lee u r 4 PlT :e d s u a c c e a d n a n o b tur Prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and praise this excellent food too highly." Hoe r e u ,,Ne. 53,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years With "runlaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, With palpitation all over, bad digestion,. constant sleep- Ce' r e .'.":.ftlid the, most intolerable nervous agitation. Ae • / 3 :_i` 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stul , ?. haver", Lord-Lieutenant of tho County of Waterford:— toteierived miteh benefit from your excellent food.—STelar DB Curs' 1 4 r omana. Canpoquin, County Waterford." 0 95p,:',„..' No. 49,832.-6 f fi!ty years' indescribable agony from spa,s4'ss, ne rvousuesa. asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, Cur e iVekness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. ne ßa 47,121.-Mias Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous Currgestion, gath er ings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. dia rrhs 56,814. —Mr. Samuel I. ton , Leicester, of two years Th e t, • ig . 6 , 1 '.' oo d is sold i n Canisters, at Is. lid.; 11b., 2s. 9d.; 21n., 1211 x, 225.; Ittolk free 2-111).. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters, on receipt of Post-office Order, by BARRY DU 4 44 it. l .._ e t?( l Co.. 77 , Regent-street, London; alto at Fortnum I ` °4 s, and sold by all respectable sarocere anti Cheziaisto. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate l'olnity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's-cross. _ _ Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the Quit Vice-Patron--His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Dike of BUCCLEUCH, This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estabina the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in actin tion to this, the average ntupber of attendance of the destitute hick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions aro received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hanson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.•, Drummond and Co. ; Gly n an d C o. ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote. and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Beraers-street; aria of the iimit4l, from tai - - - ger. R 1....;"' ----, I • No. 23,564. ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre, Long-Acre, E'VANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After QaMll'S Theatre F VANS' to SUP. LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB. AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT. At Eight o'Clock. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. RETURN TICKETS from and to all Stations on the London and North-Western Railway, where they can usually be obtained, ISSUED on SATURDAY, the 21st December, and intervening days, will be avail,.ble fnr Return on ony day up to and including SATURDAY, the 28th December. The TRAINS ON CHRISTMAS PAY WILL RUN AS ON SUNDAY, with the addition of the 7.15 a.m. Irish Mail Train from Euston, the 7.30 a.m. Day Mail Train from Euston (with its Birmingham connections, viz., the 9.40 a.m. Rugby to Wolverhampton, and the 9.35 a.m. Birmingham to Stafford), and the 6.15 and 6.45 p.m. Up Mails from Dublin. By Order. W. CAWK WELL, General Manager. Euston Station, London, Dec., 1867. MADAME RACHEL'S YOUTH, BEAUTY, GRACE, and ELEGANCE. Beware of spurious imitations. 47A, New Bond-street, and at :30, Rue de la Pais, Paris. ) ,T INFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per ` fectly pure and uncoloured. To he had of all dealers, and s wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON. 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. D UNVILLE and CO.'S " V. 11." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4. BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established ISOB. Quotations on application. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. IRT3IPITHIES h-is at all timus a n'anber .)f Firs -class REsID , . CL Sto be LET. furnished or unfurnished. or bold. more artioularly in the net ,libuur hoods of Sydenham, Upper orwood. and viei nity.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. HOUSES and APAR r %t EN FS WA Ni TED, and to be LET or SOLD, BUSINTESS ES for DISPOSAL, acc. PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUMPHRIES has c?ntinual applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of rep Air not object e d to. T . D. Humphries can at all times find ew.tomers for all descrip tions of busiuesscs. Hotels, public hots s, sold and transferrA. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing House-square. cTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOUL DERS, PIGEON CHESTS. and other Deformities, are prevented and cured by wearing CLIANDLER'S IMPROVED HYGIENIC CHEST.. EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indigestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially recommended to children for assist- Ing the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, super_ Belling the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. Gd. each. Berners-street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars foe. warded. CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers.—Do no t make sure that you know what price you are paying per pound for your candles until you have stripped them and pnt them in the scale. Some candles are right weight with out the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very thick wrappers, and some are not ne ar ly right weight with wrappers however thick. PRICE'S " GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE," " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," "BELMONT SPERM," and " BEL MONT :WAX," "BEST," " No. 2," "No 3," and "BAT TERSEA" COMPOSITES, "PRICE'S PARAFFINE," and " BELMONTINE," and all other candles of Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, are full weight without the wrappers. A.D. 1720 It 0 YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, SW. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, JAMES STEWART lI')DGSON, E: CHARLES JOHN MANNING, I DIREC , Esq Governor. sq Sub--Governor. :.;,q Deputy-Governor. TORS. Tetlow llibbert, Esq. Wilmot Halm), Esq. Egerton Hut:bard, Esq. Ncvile Lubbock, Esq. Henry Nelson, E-1. Lord Joscelino Win. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Robert. Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Davidson, Lancelot 'William Dont, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Frei:lk. Joseph Edl mann, E°-q. Charles Hermann Goschen, Esq. Riversdale Win. Gronfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sam uel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling du-3 at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. The Duty on Firo Assurances has been reduced to the uniform rate of ls. 6d. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be. FARMING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Reverionary Bonus on British LIFE rOLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. _ _ _ ------- Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonu s . The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding .£15,000 may lie insured ou one Life. _ _ _ This Corporation affords to the AsFured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal„ Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affections of the Respiratory Organs. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottles only, price ls. 2s. 3d., and lie, each. Established nearly half a Century. SATISFACTORY LETTER. 5, Wood-street, Milbank, Westminster, October 5, 1867 Srlt,—Some months back I had an attuak of Bronchitis, which left at times a tickling in the Throat, with other unpleasant feel ings. I was advised to try the BALEUM OF ANISEUD; I did so, and have found very great relief it is most comforting in allay. lug the irritation, and giving strength to the voice. You arc at liberty to make use of this as you think proper, and I earnestly hope that others may benefit by it as I have With many thanks from your obedient servant, SAMUEL DEAR, Destu'a Verger, Westminster Abbey. To Mr. Powell. Ask fur POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED RI:WTI:I - RES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI TIONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the cure. Live treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacture; Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 81s. 6d., 425., and 82s. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425., and 425. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet dace, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT FLASI I 0 STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all uses of mimeos and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. 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" PRICE'S CHILD'S NIGHT LIGHTS" are known everywhere, and are excellent for burning without a glass. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. 3IESSRS. GABRIE IBI L S , , of DENTISTS (Established Lon don 6B, Harley-stieet, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-Hill, E. 0., Liverpool B4, Duke-street, and Brighton . 38, North-street, have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Pain less System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without springs, at MODEL TZ CliAlilis4 which may be had free by pest for four stamps. MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS CON STITUENTS. ORMSKIRK. Mr. Gladstone yesterday afternoon attended a crowded public meeting in the public hall of Orms kirk, for the purpose of addressing his constituents. Mr. E. Musgrove presided and briefly introduced the right hon. gentleman to the meeting. Mr. GLADSTONE, on rising, was received with great enthusiasm. He said—Mr. Musgrove and Gentlemen, —The first if not the only duty that I have to discharge among you is that of paying, so far as acknowledgment can pay, a debt which is now an old-standing one. it can hardly have passed from your minds, and it has not passed, and never can pass, from my own—that I was returned to Parliament for the district of the county in which I was born and where my childhood was passed. Under such circumstances, by no means usual, it bad been my fate at an earlier period of my Parliamen tary life to lose the seat for the borough of Newark, which I had long enjoyed, on account of the share I took in sustaining Sir R. Peel in the adoption of a great change in the economical policy of the coun try—a change much contested at the time, but now acknowledged on all hands to have been dic tated by the truest 'wisdom. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) On that occasion I found a refuge open to me in the University of Oxford, and for 18 years, and in the course of four or five severe contests, was so happy as to hold my ground through the indul gent confidence of that learned body; but at last came the general election of 1865. At that period the cup of my offences was full and running over— (laughter)—and I believe that, so far as I have been able to learn or judge, the final delinquency which put me beyond all patience and beyond all bearing was that I had made a declaration iu debate in the House of Commons on the subject of Parliamentary Reform—(hear, hear)—to the effect that if we were exposed to the extension of the suffrage, it became us to show good cause why our fellow-countrymen should not be admitted to that privilege. (Cheers.) That was some four or five years ago, and great was the horror that was produced by that revoluticnary , declaration. (Laughter.) It was impossible to find words to paint the violent and dangerous cha racter of my of inions without going back to the agitated and excited period of the French re volution, and I was toll across the House of Commons by the gentleman who has lately been the hero of Reform—(laughter and cheers)—that I had revived the doctrines of Tom Paine ; and having succeeded in fastening upon me . a relation ship to that now almost forgotten hero of his day, it is no wonder that he fairly frightened the Univer sity of Oxford out of returning me to Parliament— (laughter)—and the University then took in my place what is called a " safe" man (the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy), a man who might be depended upon to stand for that £lO suffrage which in the year 1832 had itself been ie the mouths of these gentlemen—held to be the badge of revolution, and which in 1865 had come to be the basis of the Con stitution and the salvation of the country. Weil, gentlemen, I won't pursue the political history of the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, nor will I inquire what the University of Oxford now thinks of the manner in which it was led—l was going to say led by the nose, but I am not sure that a University has a nose—(laughter)—on that remarkable occa sion. But, gentlemen, my love of that much prized and valued honour, the representation of the University, at any rate did this—it enabled me to submit my name and character to you as a candi date for the representation of this great and dis tinguished county—(cheers)—and it enabled you in a manner dictated only by your generous con fidence, and certainly warranted by no deserts of mine, to return me to Parliament upon 48 hours' notice as member for the most popu lous district and for the greatest county constitu ency in England. (Cheers.) Allow me to offer you, gentlemen, the expression of my cordial and most respectful thanks. And I would not ask you to treat the expression of these views with reference merely to the terms in which they are expressed. I think that you will feel, with me, that the best mode of tendering thanks in any case where confidence has been shown and an important trust conferred is not by the use of inflated language, but is to testify by the evidence of facts that that confidence has not been abused, and that the trust so conferred, to the best, at any rate, of a man's power, has been fulfilled. (Hear, hear.) I must ask you, therefore, gentlemen, to consider the manner in which I have endeavoured to discharge the duties of the steward ship you have placed in my hands ; and, in my opi nion, these references to the past, which I shall enekaVour to divest, as far as possible, of any cha racter that could be offensive to any one—these references to the past do, in point of fact, form the truest and the safest test of the conduct you ought to pursue for the future in the exercise of the privi leges and electoral powers that are placed in your hands. Ladies and gentlemen, after the election of 1865 it was perfectly evident that the confidence of the country was generally given to what was called the Liberal party. A very powerful, and, I am bound to say, in many respects a most respectable minority represented a different principle, but a majority of 60 or 70 members in the House of Commons professed adhesion to what is called the Liberal creed in politics. Under these circumstances it was absolutely necessary that the Government, whether it continued under the guidance of Lord Palmerston, or, as it ultimately happened, in the event of his lamented death, that another distin guished statesman should succeed to the office of Prime Minister—it was absolutely necessary that Government should consider its position with refe rence to the long-contested and debated question of Parliamentary Reform. We proceeded to consider that position, and we endeavoured to take into view what was known to be the state of opinion and feel ing in the country ; for in the consideration of every great question in a country like this, which is free both in theory and practice, you will agree with me that no body of suen would be worthy of the name of statesmen if they proceeded to frame and submit measures to Parliament grounded merely on their own individual ideas, and with out taking into view the opinions and the social and political forces that act upon the body of the community. (Hear, hear.) In the autumn of 1865 and the beginning of 1866 we had three main facts to take into view ; I mean to say three main facts after adopting the condition in which we were unanimous, that considering the result of the election, it was our absolute duty to consider the question of receiving in Parliament the proposal to widen the basis of our electoral system, and in that way to strengthen the institutions of the coun try. (Hear.) These three facts were these :—ln the first place, there was the attitude of the people, and I mean by the people that great mass of the community who were at that time generally excluded from electoral power. That attitude was one of calm and tranquil expectation, combined with ear nest desire ; but such was the confidence placed by the people m the deliberations of Parliament, that not only all noisy and turbulent, but even energetic manifestations of that desire of the people for poli tical privilege, had been generally withheld, and we therefore had to take into account this difficulty, that when we came to make to Parliament a pro posal for Parliamentary reform, the reproach would be cast in our teeth that it was a subject of indiffe rence to those on whom we proposed to confer the benefit and the privilege of the franchise. Next to this we had to bear in mind a fact the existence of which it was impossible to doubt—namely, that the great middle class of the country—l do not speak now so much of the country constituencies as of the constituencies in the towns—the great middle class of the country admitted to the exercise of a predominating power in the town elections by the Act of 1832 were considerably di vided in opinion with respect to a further Par liamentary reform. Many, no doubt, were, as I think in consistency they were, bound to be friendly to the extension to their humble fellow• citizens of the benefit they had themselves enjoyed; but there was also no inconsiderable portion of that middle class who were either opposed, or if not op posed, yet indifferent and lukewarm with respect to the extension of the franchise. We could not, therefore, at that period count upon the earnest and ardent support from that quarter which in the pro motion of many other liberal measures we could confidently anticipate. Both those circumstances were reasons for great moderation on our part ; but there was a third, and it was more important than either of the other two. We k new th a t t h ere was a powerful minority of 270 or 280 gentlemen in Parliament who were banded together as one man to resist the extension of the franchise. I mean to resist a popular extension of the suffrage, for I do not enter into questions about the creation of votes in respect of income tax, and 20 other kinds of voting, but we knew, or had reason to believe we knew, that in our attempt to admit to the suffrage any sensible portion of the labouring classes of the country in addition to the few possessing it, we should have to face the determined opposition of a powerful party minority. So it proved when we did introduce a bill of great moderation, the effect of which would have been in the towns of this country to give the franchsse only to those who dwelt in a house possessing what it called a clear yearly value of £7 and upwards; and I take credit to those who were then united together in the Government for having used every effort that man could use to unite to gether, by a conciliatory course, if it were possible, all parties of politicians in carrying harmoniously, and in a friendly spirit, a change which might grow to violence and danger, and which, it was quite evident, must, within a short time, be carried. (Cheers.) What happened in the year 1865 ? We soon found that the Parliamentary dangers which there was some reason to anticipate were likely to be realised ; that a section of the Liberal party was I not disposed to go along with us in promoting any Parliamentary reform that involved an extension of any popular privilege; and as that was really the only mode of dealing with the suffrage, the only matter in regard to it which was of national import ance, I will say these was a portion of the Liberal party not disposed to go with us in Parliamentary reform. There was a minority of 270 to 280, who by union with the dissentient section of the Liberal party might easily grow into a majority. Th9y did grow into a majority, such a dissentient section did appear, and we now know the history of the arrange ment by which that combination was effected. It has been told usin Parliament; it hasbeen told us empha tically by a gentleman himself the most vehement, tha most able, and the most distinguished of those who led that section—l mean Mr. Lowe, the member for Calne—(hisses)—and much as I differ from the course pursued by Mr. Lowe with respect to reform, I acknowledge that it was a manly, a straight forward, and open course, so far as we have any cognizance of it within the walls of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) But Mr. Lowe has told us one story of that combination, he has told it in the face of the British House of Commons, and he has stated it without contradiction, He made known to us in the month of July last that the section with which he acted entered into communication with the leaders of the Opposition. (Hear, hear.) The object of the section was not to overthrow the Government; it was simply to prevent the lowering or, as they called it, the degradation of the suffrage. The party then in Opposition, and now in Government, gave to Mr. Lowe and his friends, according to his uncontradicted declaration, the most solemn assur ance, that in the event of the defeat of our bill, and of our ejection from office and of their accession to it, they would be no parties to the lowering or degradation of the borough suffrage. (Cheers.) That was the point which Mr. Lowe had in view. Mr. Lowe was politically allied to us ; he did not wish to place his power, and the gentlemen who felt with him on Reform did not wish to place their power and their votes, at the service of the Opposi tion for merely a party purpose. On the other hand, such was their objection to Reform —most erroneous and deplorable, I think —(cheers) —that had they obtained, as they thought, for the chiefs of the Conservative Opposition an unequivocal and binding engagement that in the event of their accession to office the suffrage should not be lowered, they entered frankly into the warfare of the cam paign of 1366, and raised the members of the mino rity to such a point that they made to us a resist ance which we were unable to overcome. Well, gentlemen, the result was that we retired from office. We did not retire from office because the House of Commons drove us out of it. At the moment we retired we knew perfectly well that the great majo rity of the House of Commons, including the bulk of those who had opposed us on Reform, were de sirous that we should continue to retain it, and were prepared to make a motion, the very terms of which they had made ready, expressive of their con fidence in the Government and the Councils of the State. (Hear, hear.) Aware of these facts, gen tlemen, we came unhesitatingly to the conclusion that the question lay between our existence as an Administration on the one side and the question of Reform on the other. 'We were not desirous to re tire, we were not insensible to the honour and the distinction of being intrusted with the guidance of the policy that is to govern a country and an empire such as this; but we believed the interest of the public in the settlement of the question of reform to be of vital interest. We said, if we continued in office we should still be exposed to the same description of opposition as had up to that time barred our way ; we knew perfectly well that if, on the other hand, we retired from office, the triumph of Reform was absolutely certain. (Great cheering.) Gentle men, there is an old saying that the bloo I of martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Hear, hear.) That which is true in religion is likewise true wish re spect to other principles of power in this world, and of value for mankind. (Hear.) It is sound with reference to political truth as well as with re ference to religious truth. We were still assured that in the blood of an Administration would lie the seeds of the success of the great measure of Parliamentary Reform— (cheers) and therefore we laid down the ensigns of power, associated our selves with that cause, and thankful am I to say that we have had that which, perhaps, may be called the highest triumph of a party—namely, to see their opponents themselves compelled to be the organs of giving effect to their principles and fulfil ling their wishes. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentle men, we met again in the year 1867, and I will en deavour to deal very briefly with the proceeding of that year ; but in giving an account of my steward ship, without claiming any such credit as your chairman was pleased to award, either to myself or to those with whom I had had the honour of acting, yet I am bound to say that I know nothing to lament and nothing to repent of in our proceedings in the year 1867. Now, in the proceedings of the year 1867 there are two things I will call your attention to that are totally and absolutely different from one another. One is the Reform Bill of 1867, and what do you think the other is ? The Refor.a Act of 1867. (Laughter and cheers.) If you bad those—the Bill and the Act of 1867 printed in parallel columns, you would yourselves be able for yourselves to test the truth and accuracy of my assertion. The bill of 1867, I said—in Par liament I was thought to say it in heat, but I said it deliberately, and I repeat it now—was the worst bill ever presented, the worst plan ever presented, to Parliament for dealing with that great and im portant subject. Perhaps that may seem an extra vagant assertion. IVell, then, gentlemen, I won't go through the clauses of that bill, but I will tell you this—and I don't think that what I say can be contradicted from any quarter—the main object of the bill was to open the suffrage to the labouring classes. Now, I will only illustrate this in two points. According to the best estimate that can be formed, it would have admitted from 100,000 to 120,000 out of the 4,000,000 labouring population of England to the enjoyment of the franchise; but along with that extension of the power of the labouring classes, what compensation, forsooth, or remedy would provide against their supposed pos sible misuse of that power ? There were contriv ances, partly in the nature of suffrages to be used by persons in virtue of taxes, and partly in other various forms, but which may be summed up in one phrase, which became sufficiently notorious—the proposal of what was called the dual vote. (Hear, hear.) Now, the effect of this bill for extending popular privilege, while it gave 100,000 or 120,000 votes in the boroughs and towns of England, where enormous masses of the population are excluded from political power, would by means of the dual vote have given nearly 300,000 new votes to the very people who were already possessed of the suf frage—that is to say, instead of extending or in creasing, it would have immensely diminished the power of the labouring class. (Applause.) Well, gentlemen, I stand upon that proposition, if neces sary upon that proposition alone ; and I say that that bill was a bill which would justify words of course a great deal stronger than it is at all neces sary for me to apply to it upon this occasion, but at any rate which justify those who declined to give approbation to that bill, whether it called it self a Household Suffrage Bill or whatever else it called itself. Besides that, there were a set of pro visions, in my opinion, the most offensive and the most invidious that were ever embodied in an act of Parliament with reference to those who were called the compound householders, who form two thirds of the whole labouring community of the borough, and consequently it would have left them not only to go through divers formalities, but likewise, by th payment of a money fine, come to the exercise of the suffrage. Well, gentlemen, I won't tell you about the two years' residence, about the absence of a lodger franchise, about the paper 147, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES are superseding all others. Prize medals, London, 1862; Paris, 1887. Gold from £l5 155.. silver from £6 65.-68, Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street. ~.. .~ i ~L /~ ~ ~ -~-- .~, cf l ~- 4d. STAMPED sd. voting,.• and about a multitude of other classes, for, the rk .Heaven, they are all dead and buried, and the fine upon the compound householder is likewise gone, although it has been replaced by arrangements mucli better than that., but still, I am afraid, very bad , )11 the whole. But still the bill was not amended —it was metamorphosed ; it was made into a great act on ;behalf of liberty ; it assumed a character so differen t from that with which it was introduced into Pa •liament that one of the most distinguished and one of the most sound men who supported the Govern, neat through the whole length and breadth of its CS isteuce•—l mean the Duke of Bucclench— stated ite a speech on the subject of that act that there was nothing left i❑ it of the original bill ex cept the single word " whereas" at the commence ment. (Laughter.) That no doubt was a poetical method of speech, but poetry is often a vehicle of truth, and I believe in the main it conveyed sub stantial truth upon that occasion. Well, gentle men, I now congratulate you upon the progress of that act. I will by and by refer to what seemed to me to be its defect, but it is without doubt an enormous advance in the political growth of Eng land. (Hear, hear.) Many of the instances attendiug it have been painful. I cannot be expected to feel a great admiration, nor do I pretend to feel any admiration whatever, of the manner in which it has been carried: (Hear, hear.) But I must look at the Act in itself ; I must look at what it does for the people of England ; I must look at what it promises to do for them. If we must look at its faults, we must ask whether it involves principles or confessed admissions which are sure to lead to amendments of those ,faults, and so, looking at the Act as upon a great progress in the career of British liberty—(cheers)—it has been said, forsooth, that the Liberal party—the great bulk of the Liberal party—offered opposition to the Act. Gentlemen, it is not so. What happened is this. When the bill was introduced, and when that bill, professing to confer household suffrage, withdrew on the one hand what it had given on the other, and subjected to such impediments and embarrassments and to such actual penalty the attainment of the suffrage in the majority of cases, we all saw it was going to be male the instrument, really, I may say, of poli tical terror, to those who desire to be voters in England. What we said was this—" Away with all these conflicting contrivances ; don't let U 3 ask whether the rate upon a man's house is paid by himself, whether it is paid under the Small Tenements Act or under the Compound Act by his landlord ; quite enough for you and the public authorities if the rate is paid at all. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Secure the payment of the rate if you please, but beyond that let the arrangements be made which are for the convenience of the respec tive parties—that is to say of the parishes, the owners, and the occupiers." And therefore I made a motion that the franchise should be enjoyed en tirely and irrespectively of the question whether the rate was laid directly upon the man himself, or whether it were laid upon him through his landlord. For that motion 289 gentlemen voted. We were quite willing, we desired rather to have taken a mo derate extension, say of £7 or £6, of the suffrage, combined with clearness and with provisions that would have made the enjoyment of the privilege easy, rather than to have offered to the people some high-standing boon which, when in point of fact it came to be put to the test should be found to have restrictions which would deprive them of the enjoy ment. (Hear, hear.) Well, the House of Com mons decided against us by a majority of 21, and I am not going to throw any blame on those who constituted that majority. When that question was decided the Liberal party in Parliament made ❑o proposal and gave no vote except with re- ' ference to the improvement of that bill; and, gentlemen, I think I may say we did improve the bill. We struck out the two years' residence and reduced it to one :year, although that two years' residence was proposed to us by the Government. We were told through the mouth of Sir J. Pakington that it had this recommendation attached to it—that it was intended to limit the number of votes. (Several voices, "Oh !") Yes, ' that was the declaration made by Sir John Paking ton when he rose to support the two years' resi dence against the one year's. We got rid of the tax franchise, we got rid of the voting papers, we made some extension, though 1 am sorry to say we failed iu making any reasonable or due extension. For the redistribution of Beats, take the enormous anomalies which, for instance, South Lancashire is under. Not only is it now inadequately represented, but after the dissolution would be represented very little better. When we made a proposal for giving additional members to large towns, the leader of the House of.Cummons declared if that proposal were carried by the house, Government must reconsider the whole question, which is the Parliamentary method of telling the House of Commons that they would have to drop the bill. (Laughter.) I was obliged to rise in my place there and then, and to say that if the Government dropped the bill we should take it up. (Cheers.) Well, the bid has passed, and it has passed with some considerable defects ; the redistribution of seats is totally inade pate ; the provision with respect to rating, I con fuss, I think very objectionable; but, at the same time, that is a matter that is in the hands of the people themselves, and I do not wish to make it a subject of political controversy. We made another great mistake with reference to what is called the minority vote. With regard to that vote there are two questions involved—one is whether minorities should be represented at all, and the other is, when they are represented, at whose expense they should be represented. Now observe what we have done. The question whether the minority should be represented at all is very open to debate. Now, I prefer the old English principle, and my idea of the Conservative process is rather in standing by old English principles when there is no strong reason fur departing from them. My idea is that the old English principle of dealing with communities, of allowing each community to speak for itself, and when the minority is dissatis fled, of giving it an encouragement to struggle by fair means to become a majority, I believe that it is the proper basis of representation--(cheers)— but still I admit there is a great deal to be said on the subject. The mistake we have made is worse than having come to an erroneous decision on de- ' batable questions. I will illustrate what lam saying by the case of Liverpool. I take the case of Liver pool, because the majority there has exercised its electoral power on the last occasion, and on several occasions, in a manner which I do not at all approve. (Cheers and laughter.) lam not invested with the privilege of choosing members for Liverpool ; pos sibly I should make a different choice if that were so. I will assume that the majority in Liverpool consists of 15,000, and the minority of 10,000 or 12,000. I take the number arbitrarily, because Ido not desire to be too precise. The ar gument is this—it is said that these 12,000 men are so important that it is intolerable they should re main without representatives. Suppose that to be true—and it is possible there may be gentlemen in this room who think that the 12,000 should have a distinct representation of their own —suppose, I say, on account of their numbers, combined with their intelligence, you will arrange a system under which these 12,000 shall have a member. What 1 want to know is from where that member is to be got. L it just or tolerable, if these 12,000 are to be re presented, to teiie them from the number we had allotted to the 15,000 or more, from the 200, 300, or 400 who constitute the voting majority in many of the little boroughs of England ? It appears to me that a grosser injustice could not be conceived than that after we had promised the majority in Liverpool and other great communities, and after in the case of counties the land had given to the majority the power of returning those members we should take one away from them and give it , 4 2 t...) VsIAPI .. • to a Minority in order to mainfiats•• .the „ L ye' tation of Houston or Ashburtcin, er 'some •othei': ; ;; 7 places, the names of which I willa9tjtroUble'yeu with, because if I did you wouldAarobalily ',not .know whether they were in England otAbyminia?: . (Cheers and laughter.) There is another por tion of the bill which I still consider unsatisfactory-, and that is with resr eat to the county franchise. I do not think it wise to establish so great a differ ence as we have got between the occupation fran chise in counties and the occupation franchise in boroughs. (Hear.) At the same time, while I re serve my freedom to take any course at a suitable time, and while I cannot pass by the subject of Reform without naming those opinions, I do not wish to name them so as to weaken the power of those congratulations which I offered to you at an earlier period of my remarks upon the passing of a bill which constitutes so great an epoch in the hi;- tory and progress of British legislation. (Cheers.) We have not done with Ref A.m. (Cheers.) One of the great charges made against our Government was that we did no: propose to deal with all parts of the question of Reform at once. But it was found impossible to deal with the whole of them. The only question dealt with in the manner to do the smallest good in the last session was a part of the question of franchise. It has been settled for England, but remains unsettled for Scotland and Ireland ; and as to redistribution, although s.one good has been done, I put no great value upon it ; for if you touch the question you ought to do so in such a way as to settle it. (Cheers.) Now, I do not think it desirable to come here to rail per sonally at antagonists, and I have endeavoured to avoid, as far as I could, falling into that error. I am not going to rail, but I am going to refer—(laugh ter)—and in a speech at Edinburgh, as I read it re ported in the newspapers, Mr. Disraeli, the dis tinguished gentleman who holds the position cf Chancellor of the Exchequer, says that in his recol lection, and I believe during his Parliamentary career, there were 32 measures of vital importance and benefit--in fact, as I understood, the 32 mea sures which have done so much good in the country within these last years—that they had ail of them been supported by the party with which he was as sociated, and had been strongly, I think I even read the words bitterly, opposed by the other quarters of the House. Gentlemen, I read that declaration with the utmost pain. It was beyond anything painful to find that there were these 32 measures, none of which I had had the pleasure of supporting, because, when" reviewed in my mind the measures I had supported and the measures I had opposed, I found that almost withoutexception those measures which Mr. Disraeli, had opposed I had supported, and those wh;.ch he had supported I had opposed. (Laughter and cheers.) I, therefore, found myself in this painful predicament, of being totally excluded after a great number of years of hard labour from having had anything to do with any of the good laws that have distinguished our recent history and given satisfac tion to the people and strength to the institutions of the country. But, gentlemen, there was no list given of those 32 measures—(laughter) —and I cannot tell you to what a degree my curiosity was excited with regard to that list. During the late session of Parliament very trying circumstances of a domestic character prevented us from asking for any explanation of these matters, and likewise upon other matters relative to that curious process of what is called education—but it differs from educa tion in the ordinary sense of what is called educa tion—on the question of Reform, to which it appears the Conservative party have, without knowing it, been subjected for the last seven years. (Laughter.) Now, of that process I will only say one word in passing, and it is this, that in general when people are put into education your first object is to open their eyes ; but in this kind of education it appears that it is essential that while the thing is going on they should know nothing whatever about it—(laughter)—and should suppose down to the last moment the direct opposite ; but that when the happy moment comes then they are DO longer treated like people going to play blind man's buff, the handkerchief is taken away from their foreheads, and they are told and they discover, to their intense satisfaction, that they have been undergoing without knowing it a process of educa tion for the last seven years. (Laughter and cheers.) Well, gentlemen, among the advances in the art of physic of late years there has been one very great one—l don't know whether you experience the benefit of it with the country practitioners as much as we do iu London—and that is the art of making physic agreeable, and now in a great majority of cases you take it without knowing it ; and it appears to me that this system of medicine has been adopted by the Conservative party of the country, and that the Conservative party has been dosed with principles of Parliamentary Reform while it believed that it was walking in the opposite direction. It now discovers what it has been about, and seems perfectly well pleased ; and if they are pleased, gentlemen, I know not why we should not be pleased—(checrs) —because the result has been the attainment of an enormous benefit, and advan tage to the country. (Cheers.) I come back to my point, and I should like to know if there is any one that can tell me what were these 32 measures. I declare to you 1 should be put very hard to it if I were compelled to mention one of them—that is to say, great measures of benefit for the people which were strenuously supported by the friends of the opposite party, and which were bitterly opposed from another quarter—this is, of course, from the Liberal portion of the house. Ido not know what they were, bat, gentlemen, I do know what they were not—they were not the repeal of the Roman Catholic disabilities, which formed in part the fulfilment and in part the promise of fulfil ment of the duties of this country towards Ire land, and of ourselves, as lovers of liberty to wards all our fellow-subjects, whether Roman Catholics or not--(cheers)--they were not the repeal of the disabilities of Protestant Dissen ters, they were not the repeal of the Corn Laws, they were not Reform of Parliament, they were not the introduction of principles of fair representative government into the municipal communities of the country ; they were not the repeal of the naviga tion laws, which was to ruin all our shipping, just as the repeal of the corn laws was .to have ruined our agriculture, but which resulted in an enormous extension of our shipping, as the repeal of the corn laws resulted in immense increase in the value of our produce ; they were not the treaty with France, which has opened and extended the commerce of the country, and in extending the commerce of the country has done more by joining two nations with the right hand of fellowship, never again, I trust, to be severed ; they were not reform of the whole tariff of the country, which has given you, without almost any exception, the absolute command of all the raw material of labour and industry that the world can yield without payment of a single shilling to the Exchequer ; they were not the establishment of that free press which now circulates almost by millions, if not by millions, throughout the whole of this country, and pene trates into every nook and corner of the land. Well, gentlemen, I really thought, in my blindness and benighted ignorance, that those were the mea sures, or, at all events, that they were the contested measures, because some measures-1 am thankful to say, many good and valuable measures—have passed the Legislature without contest. I thought it was the contests upon these measures which had given a special character to the Parliamentary history of the age. Gentlemen, I still tbiuk so, and I ask you if you think the spirit which formed and conceived and dictated such measures is to continue to prevail in the councils of the country ? (Cheers.) Let me refer, in one word, to a subject of the greatest im portance, which time absolutely prevents me from developing. We must have a Reform Bill for Ire land. I must give the Government this credit— that the franchise which they proposed for Scot land was conceived in a liberal spirit. The fran chise to be proposed forlreland will, I hope, be con ceived iu a liberal spirit also. I refer to it only for the sake of saying that which I hold not merely as an isolated proposition, but as a principle to be applied to the whole policy of the country. If this is indeed to be a United Kingdom, we non , .;. endeavour to give one heart and one minet people of all its three divisions, and that c: _ • Yr F I ~~ I