The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1861 ATTACK ON A BRITISH CONSUL BY CHINESE PIRATES. The following is an account received from Mr. Thos. Taylor Meadows, her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai, of the recent attack made on him by pirates ou the Yangtsze : I believe I shall satisfy a common wish among my friends here, and possibly impart to foreigners generally some information useful in these times, by giving a detailed narrative of some portions of a recent excursion en the Great River, and more particularly of an attack made on me by pirates on Saturday, the 20th inst. I had loft Shanghai in my own yacht, or Anglo- Chinese schooner-rigged excursion craft, on the evening of Tuesday, the 16th, with the intention of proceeding up the Great River as far as Chin keang, and of visiting, either on the way there or back, various places on each bank. A strong north-west gale having driven me back during the night of Wednesday, and forced me to spend 30 hours in the Lew (Lew-ho), I found myself at daybreak of the following morning moving along the left (northerly) bank of the Great River, about opposite to Kea.shan Point, and still only about 75 (sea) miles from Shanghai. I was close in shore, going against an ebb tide with an E.S.E. wind nearly aft, but a little on the port quarter. It was so light that the crew had to scull from time to time to keep the craft moving over the ground. In an hour or two we heard a firing of guns in the direction of Keang-yin, and though the distance seemed too great, I thought it must be the sound of Imperialist and Taeping cannonading at that city. Afterwards, between 8 and 9 o'cock, the firing recommenced nearer ; and we then descried some miles in advance, but in the middle of the stream, two or three craft, which my boatmen at once de clared to be pirates, firing at and chasing a trading junk which was escaping first from one and then from another by rapid changes of her course. In this way the junk and the pirates disappeared behind one of the long reedy islands which have formed themselves in that part of the river. As we continued skirting the bank, we passed a pretty large northern affluent,something like the Lew river, the mouth of which was staked across, leaving in the middle a narrow passage for small boats only, and on both sides of which earthen batteries had had been newly thrown up. On these a number of the country people were standing, looking at the doings of the pirates. For some time before we neared the place where we had seen the pirate craft I was busy in the cabin, when I was told that two were approaching us. I took my Jacob's rifle and went out on to the fore deck, when I saw, broad on the port beam, and making directly for us, two two-masted craft, both less than my own, but the houses or main cabins of which were much smaller, and the fore deck much larger in proportion, and one of which had a gun in the bows, while the other had one gun in the bows, and a second amidships between the two masts. They each pulled eight oars, and be sides the pullers had, the smaller some six or eight men, the larger some twelve or fifteen men, evi dently set apart for working the guns, throwing powder bags, &c., and boarding. They were dressed uniformly in light blue jackets, of native cotton cloth apparently, and with red caps on, or red handkerchiefs tied round their heads. When I emerged from the cabin they were about two hun dred yards off and pulling hard. I shouted to them to be off, and as they still continued advanc ing, was bringing my Jacob up to the present when a man on the craft most on our bows answered a word or two in a tone of assent, and the craft herself at the same time turned toward her comrade. In the meantime my recently engaged European servant, Andrew M'Cutchem (a Belfast man), had also appeared on the fore deck, and my Chinese servants, were bringing out the remainder of my guns and pointing them at the pirates, who, after a little clamorous consultation, made off towards the middle of the river. About a quarter of a mile fur ther on, when the pirates were still less than a mile distant, we met two " white topped" Nigpo traders, to each of which my people shouted that the craft in advance of them were pirates, &c. "They thereon both turned back, one firing a couple of useless shots. They ran into a small affluent, the mouth of which we just then passed. The country people there asked us to go out and attack the pirates, saying that they were ready to help as. I may mention here that, during the excursion, I found a greater or less number of trading junks in the mouths of all the affluents, where the front that they showed as a body, the guns some had, and the certain backing of the rural volunteers, was sufficient to deter pirates from attacking them. My yacht was at some distance from the nearest affluent when the pirates approached as above, and as I was in the main cabin, and my servant was in the cooking room behind it, they thought they were going to make an easy prey of an unmanned trader. There are now on the Great River a number of Chinese merchant craft of the same partially acci dentallised appearance as those used here by foreigners for yachts, and coasting traders. After events showed that the sole reason for the pirates making off was their not being at the moment pre pared to engage the two foreigners who suddenly appeared. I anchored to await the flood, and while doing so employed myself in taking to pieces and clean ing the lock of my Sharpe's breech-loader, which I had found out of order on leaving Shanghai. I then handed it with a stock of cartridges to my English servant as his weapon in case of an attack, giving him at the same time some instructions as to the loading and firing of the rather peculiar arm. Though too short in the stock for me to use conveniently, it is in itself a very effi cient weapon. I also gave instructions to my Chinese servants and boatmen as to the duty each was, in case of attack, to perform as regarded the handing to me of the guns and the re-loading of them, and the handling of the vessel. At about noon we weighed again, and continued our course with the wind in the same quarter, and now a steady though very light breeze. Our course being at this time about S.W. by W., slanting across the river toward the Keang-yin Hills, on its right bank, the wind was just a little abaft the port beam. We bad not proceeded above a mile, when we descried, about two or three miles ahead, the two pirates whose acquaintance we had made in the morning, and another of the same build. They were mov ing in the same direction as ourselves, but in a very irugular manner, running along side of each other, and crossing each other's courses as if to speak. They were in time joined by a fourth from the left bank of the river; and similar movements were kept up. At one time, one parted company, and keeping close to the wind went off at right angles to our course, but he soon after returned and rejoined his companions. Their motions became at length so very suspicious — they shortened sail, fo r i nstance, so as to a ll ow us to gain more rapidly on them, while they were careful to keep to windward of course—that I deemed it best to-make at once my last preparations. I had, therefore, my arms brought out and placed on the raised hatch on the foredeck. These were as fol lows :—.A Jicob's single-barrelled 32-gauge rifle ; two long single-barrelled shoulder wild-fowl guns (Col. Hawker's kind) ; two double-barrelled shot guns with longish barrels, two deuble-barrelled shot guns of the usual length ; and, lastly, a pair of holster and a pair of belt revolvers, of the London Armoury Company (Adams's patent), making in all, of guns and pistols, 31 barrels, exclusive of the breech-loader handed to my servant. When these preparations were made I seated myself comfort. ably on a rattan arm-chair on the port (the pirate's) side of the foredeck, stretching my legs out on the bulwark, and thereby screening from view the guns, swords, &c., that were arranged on the hatch. I sat about an hour in this way, watching, with my people, the motions of the pirates ahead. As we gradually neared them, and when we were about half a mile astern, one of them luffed, and, keeping close to the wind, went altogether away in the direction of the right bank. The other three then formed in a line parallel to our course, so that we should have to pass them, one after the other, at a distance of about 100 yards to leeward. I had previously, when we first observed their strange motions, given the order to my chief boatman, who steered, to keep straight on our own course with out paying the least attention to the Orates, and precisely as if there was no other iessel in the river but our own. This order h now strictly observed; and the pirates had in consequence the deliberate and undisturbed selection of the position they thought most effective. They were about 30 or 40 yards from each other. The leading one had one gun and about 15 men, the second two guns and some 20 men, and the third two guns and some 25 men—in all five guns, six or nine pounders, and some 60 men, who must have been partly, if not altogether, southern fellows, as, in the morning, my people had heard the two that ap proached us hailing each other in Canton and Full keen dialects. On our side we were two Europeans armed with small arms, and ten Chinese, the latter non-combatants, except in so far as they aided me in loading. My craft was slipping along at about three miles an hour through the water, which was scarcely ruffled by a ripple. We were going along in 6 or 8 fathoms, and in the middle of the river, which is there four miles broad. The weather was clear as well as quiet, only a thin layer of white clouds somewhat obscuring the sun: As we got nearly abreast of the rearmost pirate, all three simultaneously hoisted the lower portions of their mainsails e and though, with the exception of the men doing this work, their red-capped crews were clustered in front of or under the house abaft the mainmast in seeming indifference, there could no longer be the least doubt what their intention was. I then rose, told my servants to put the rat tan chair into the cabin, and taking up my four revolvers, moved forward and placed them on the dog-hold hatch, just abaft the foremast, where there was most space for me to work, yet where one step 1 to port or starboard enabled me to fire along either side of my craft. I then took my Jacob. As I did so, a man in the rearmost pirate waved a red flag, and the attack began. All three turned their heads towards us, their crews raised a clamour of ferocious yells and cries, and the pullers took to their oars and pulled hard. I still did not fire. I expected that, from the Chinese usual mode of aiming along the line of metal, their shot would pass over us if we were even closer, while I should have a better chance with my smooth bares. I was at last just about to take aim, when the leading boat, then about 60 yards distant, fired and sent not a round shot but a shower of grape across us. It was well aimed, so far as level was concerned, but passed a few yards in advance of myself, just across our bows where no one was standing. At the same instant rattan shields were raised and somehow shipped all round the pirate craft, one in advance of each puller, and others round the bows screening the fellows at the gun there. Catching sight, however, of one of their red head-dresses over the top of one shield on the starboard bow, I aimed about a foot below it at the shield, and the fellow got the bullet through his shoulder. This I was told after the fight by my boatmen who, from their position aft, could see better, and who said that this man was very badly hurt in the shoulder. I myself had no time to watch the effect of my shot, for the two leading craft were coming very near indeed— looked, in fact, as if they must in thirty or forty seconds close with us. I therefore fired my smooth bores in rapid succession into them, beginning with the long singles and ending with the short doubles. By the time that was done my head coolies had reloaded Jacob, which I again fired. Marking then that our assailants' onset had been somewhat checked, and that they could not immediately close with us, I reserved my revolvers for their original purpose, that of repelling an actual attempt to board, and commenced recharging the smooth bores. ll‘Cutchens, who was immediately in front of the cabin door, had fired the Sharpe into the leading vessel immediately on my beginning, and then kept steadily on recharging an d filing, aiming like myself always at the most avail able mark in that pirate craft, which at the mo ment seemed pressing nearest, and more especially at the pullers. The pirates in the meanwhile dis charged all their guns at us, and then reloaded and again fired, again with grape, with the exception of one gun that fired a round shot. But our fire checked the pullers so much that all three craft, instead of coming alongside, fell astern, so that after the fourth or fifth rifle shot (I did not again discharge the smooth bores), I and my man were obliged to jump up on to the roof of the main cabin, run to the after part of it, and fire thence. Before, however, they fell much astern, the third boat had passed somewhat on to the starboard quarter, and thence made an attempt to set fire to our mainsail, as it projected out on that side before him. I had just discharged from the cabin roof my rifle down the line of the pullers' shields' in the second craft (the oars were going, yet I could not, high up though I was, see anything of the men), when a fellow rushed out openly from the house of the third craft, with a thick bam boo tube at the end of a stick, and from which he discharged a shower of balls of white fire, one of which fell short of the mainsail only by a few yards. By the time I had fired about 12 Jacobs, and Andrew had nearly exhausted his stock of 20 cart ridges, the action was nearly over. The pirates could have almost maintained, with their sails alone, those distances of 50 to 70 yards astern of us, into which they first fell on bearing down slantingly on us ; and if their oars had been kept steadily and vigorously going they could have gained upon us. But at the period indicated they had not only all ceased pulling, but had got their three craft close to the wind, endeavouring to get out of the reach of the dangerous missiles that were being sent into them. The Sharpe was made over to me when I was in England by Mr. Kerr, the superintendent of the works of the London Armoury Company, who had himself brought it from the United States. Fired at 200 or 300 yards distance against an iron target, it flattens a conical bullet of two-thirds of an ounce weight into a little leaden cake; and I have knocked the sand up with it in the midst of a flock of wild geese, on a bank that was at least 1,000 yards off. The Jacob, which throws a still heavier bullet, is well known to be the very king of shoulder weapons. No small arm has yet been proved equal to it for power and accuracy ; and mine is an excellent example, made expressly for me by Blanch. The smooth bores did invaluable service in checking the spirit of the first rush at us, but it is to the two rifles that I at tribute the definitive repulse of our assailants. What was originally the leading craft went off first, with not a man visible about it, even the steersman managing to keep out of sight ; and I am inclined to think that its crew must have suffered most. Apart from such loss as they may have suf fered in killed and wounded, it was satisfactory ,to think that all of them must have felt considerably humiliated and discouraged at the signally abortive result of their deliberate attempt to murder and rob a peaceful foreign gentleman and his ser vants. They had sent nine showers of grape and one round shot at us, besides the fire-balls above mentioned. Yet the two foreigners, though they had been fighting exposed to full view, re mained unhurt, and were still actively engaged in As they were going off, I sent assailing them. after them first two rifle shells at 600 and 1,000 and then a solid bullet at 1,500 yards elevation. The 1,000 yards shell was seen to strike the -water in very good line with one of them, and only a little short. The 1,500 yards bullet, sent chiefly to show them the range of the weapon, must have gone rig,ht over the middle craft, if it did not actually strike her. Shortly after that, they were in a cluster with their heads together; and wishing them joy of their mutual felicitations I descended to put the arms in order again, and attend to our further pro gress. We have no loss to grieve us on our side. My English servant received without injury a spent grapeshot on the waistband; and the coolie who loaded my rifle was also struck, but also without being hurt. All the Chinese behaved very well. None went down below ; and the coolies just mentioned and a body servant who helped him in loading, stood up to their work quite exposed, although several of the first volleys of grape flew with great farce about us. The steersman stuck to his post and kept the vessel steadily on her course, though his hat was brushed off by a ball that then split the after-cabin door just in front of him. Lastly, two men whom 1 had in the morning ap pointed to push off closing pirates with the long bamboo boat poles, so that I might have more op portunity to use my revolvers, did come forward with the poles just at the time when a close of the pirate craft seemed imminent. The short flood of that portion of the river having soon ended, it was quite dark before we reached theKcang-yin hills, and about 9 p.m. I was obliged, by the sinking of the wind and a heavy rain, to anchor for the night close to the north bank, opposite Keang-yin itself. At daybreak on the following morning we descried, lying along the opposite bank of the river, nine heavily armed southern lorchas and west coast junks, and, steal ing away from them—with the very first of the day light and up the river in advance of me—our three foes of the day before. I had no longer any doubt of what I had concluded on the preceding day, that these pirates were a light squadron detached from the piratical southern craft hired by the im perialist authorities to oppose the Taeping rebels. The country people of the left bank, no friends of " long-haired" rebels, had positively denied that the three pirates belonged to these latter. They were keang-taou, not chang-maou, they said. Now in going on and leaving my assailants kohind me, I had been willing to meet the same men aga in in returning, should they think fit to attack me. But viewing the objects which were taking me up the river, I did not feel bound to incur the risk of fighting a succession of reinforced or fresh crews, drawn from 200 or 300 of the greatest ruffians in China. Further, a strong northerly wind was setting in, and it was quite clear that my projected excursion would require many more days than I could spare from Shanghai. I therefore turned, left both lorcha fleet and the flying squadron behind me, and reached Shanghai without further adven ture to myself. But on the afternoon of the follow ing day, while lying at anchor off the mouth of the Tung-chow creek, I saw a trading junk hotly pur sued by a pirate away down the river, in the direc tion of Lew-ho and Weosung. The pirate was first firing at her from the windward, but the trader having cast off her boat, must, I believe, have even tually escaped, as she seemed rather increasing , the distance between the pirate and herself, when both disappeared below the horizon. 11112. HORSMAN, M.P., AND BLS CONSTITUENTS. STROUD, WEDNESDAY. The Right Hon. E. Horsman, the member for this borough, met a large body of the electors and non-electors this afternoon in the Subscription Rooms for the purpose of giving an account of his stewardship, and defending himself against the various charges of inconsistency which have been brought against him in connexion with the course pursued by him daring the last session. Captain HALLIWELL presided, and. briefly opened the proceedings by requesting that a fair hearing should be given to the hon. member as well as to any other gentleman who might desire to address the meeting. The right hon. gentleman commenced his speech by observing that since he last had the honour of meeting his constituents political events of unusual importance had occupied the public mind, and events of still greater importance might occur before the lapse of another year. At home we had many unsettled questions to deal with—financial difficulties, increased taxation, a disorganised Par liament, a Ministry entirely divided against itself, and as a consequence every great question of prin ciple or policy was degraded into a compromise. (Hear.) Abroad we had every cause for thankful ness that we had just ended the calamitous Chinese war. But there was another war nearer home for which the note of preparation had already been sounded, and when that war should break out the interests of England in the Adriatic would take her into the thickest of the fray. Never did he remem ber a Parliamentary recess in which it had been more the duty of representatives to meet and take counsel with their constituents, not only as to the past, but with regard to the future, in order that we might reaffirm the principles on which our admi nistration should be conducted at home„ and, what was not less important, declare unmistakeably the policy by which in the face of Europe every elector should support the discharge of England's high responsibilities abroad. In reviewing the business of the last session it was his intention to notice the events in the order in which they had occurred. When he last had the pleasure of Meeting the electors the all-absorbing question was that of Parliamentary Reform. That was a question on which candidates and Cabinets wore alike to be tested. On Parliamentary Reform the Ministry of Lord Derby was defeated and expelled ; on Parliamentary Reform the House of Commons was dissolved ; on Parliamentary Reform the new Cabinet was constructed. Parliamentary Reform was the special mission—a comprehensive Reform Bill—that was the slang phrase. A large and comprehensive Reform Bill, that should throw into the shade the lilliputian measure of Lord Derby, was the one pledge and purpose of its creation, and the condition and end of its existence. Two sessions had now passed away, but where was the Reform Bill ? In what corner of the constitution were the promised thousands of new electors to be found ? What service to the cause of Reform had been rendered by Lord J. Russell's cunningly-de vised legislation, unscrupulous machinations, and successful manoeuvres, by which the public inte rest had been sacrificed to personal and private ends, were fresh in the recollection of all present. Perhaps some of them might be still weeping over the grave of their buried hopes, and those feelings he desired to spare as much as possible. (Cries of Oh! oh ! and laughter.) The second question of importance in the session was the commercial treaty with France, and on that subject he had exercised the same independent judgment as he had done on the question of Reform, and with the same result, for many of those who at the outset most strongly condemned his opinions had since seen reason to modify their own. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) He need not make any apology for alluding to that treaty, although he believed that many of his constituents had already forgotten all about it. (No, no.) lie was certain that a large number of them remembered it with perfect in difference; but, as ho was addressing a commercial community with whom the treaty had been a mat ter of some interest, he would endeavour to point this 'Aral, that on questions of trade as well as of Reform it was very dangerous to rush too impul sively into action on first impresions. (Hear.) That the treaty was recommended on two grounds —first, as a commercial transaction in the interest of free trade, and next as a political transaction in the interests of peace. Now, he had objected to it on both these grounds. As a treaty of reciprocity, he held it to he a departure from the principles of free trade, and therefore an abandonment of our national policy (" No, no," and " Hear, hear"); and as a means of strengthening the alliance with France, and winning that great military Power over to a policy of peace instead of war, he held it to be a practical delusion. He did not intend to fight the battle of the treaty with any arms of his own, but would cite as witnesses the Ministers of the Crown by whom the treaty had been negotiated. Mr. Milner Gibson, in speaking to his constituents, said that the opponents of the commercial treaty were animated by the anti-Gallican spirit of the last century; but he forgot that it that spirit did exist it was first evoked by Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. (" Oh, oh !") It was a matter of history that at the end of the Session of 1859 Mr. Bright made the modest suggestion that we should enter into some arrangement with France respecting the wine duties, but both the noble lords whom he had named scouted the proposal. And orn what grounds ? They said it was a treaty of Issciprecity that was asked for, and it was inud n tissible because it was at variance with the prin ciples of free trade, and they were indignant in appeals principlest o the of House s tradee of Commonsagainst theto A vindi cateian . *Teat change had come over oh !" and laughter.) But a ir tiie two noble lords, and they announced that they the -in e sj it:ru opinions aarPy s it aB o c6 f 3; ' t ( h "a o s those Oh, h treaty whieh they had previously concluded eviouslyo that very bieetedto, and sorry to s a y th at t h e lib e ral party, who cheer ed called' upon Parliament to ratify it ; and he was the Government when they said that recipr o-A city was inconsistent with free trade, cheered them more loudly still when they declared that free trade was founded on r eciprocity. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He found himself unable to follow the Government or their party in that course of apos trophizing. On the first occasion they spoke the language of truth ; on the second that of expediency. [A Voice.---" Ain't that your own picture ?"] (Laughter.) And what was that expediency ? There was an impression in the House of Com mons that it was the noble lord's pledge with re gard to the Reform Bill that caused the conversion of.members to the treaty. It was supposed to have been found that the Reform Ministry was about to be brought to an untimely end by its own inability to grapple with Reform ; for when, in the recess, the Cabinet assembled to frame their measure,such ardent Reformers were they that it was said the 15 members of the Council had no less than 15 dif ferent opinions on Reform, and that such unflinching and uncompromising Reformers were they that they did not agree on a single principle, and they differed upon every detail until the fragmentary bill became a confused mass of useless statistics. (Laughter.) But, then, something must be done to continue to the country the blessings of a Reform Ministry even without the blessing of Reform. It was stated that the wiles of secret diplomacy were set to work, and it was discovered that, although the most ardent Reformers were sincere and determined on Reform, they were much more ardent worshippers of peace and of commerce as a blessed instrument of peace, and it was advised that if a bad Reform Bill could be supplemented by a good French treaty the Government might still go on and the Liberal copartnery be kept out of the Gazette. (Laughter.) The treaty was rapidly negotiated, and they could say,— " We struck in time, the bargain was agreed, We still have shifts against a time of need. Tho rats that always trust to ono poor hole, They never can be rate of any soul." (Laughter.) As he had been no party to the Reform pledge, neither had he any motive to escape from it by supporting the treaty. He cheered the Minister as loudly as any man when the Minister solemnly declared that black was black; but he declined to cheer when the Minister said equally solemnly that black was white. (Oh, oh, and groans.) [A Voice—" This is a wholesale abuse of the Liberal party."] He was merely stating facts. (Hear.) Facts were truths, and truths ought to work conviction. If the facts were not palatable, he was not responsible for them. (Laughter.) He stated at the time that the treaty, so far as related to bringing about a policy of peace, would prove a delusion. Was he wrong there ? (Yes.) Why the ink was hardly dry on the treaty before Lord J. Russell declared the alliance to be at an end—that he was seeking for other alliances on the continent as against France; and in the very last week of the session Lord Palmerston spoke of the Emperor of the French in language more personally offensive than was ever before in a time of peace employed by a Prime Minister to wards the ally of his Sovereign. (Hear.) These were two facts. He would mention another in con nexion with the treaty. At the beginning of the session the treaty was announced in the Queen's Speech as a matter of immense importance, and especially intended to strengthen our relations with France. That language was repeated in the middle of the session in the reply to the Address. But at the close of the session, when the Queen prorogued Parliament, the treaty was never mentioned at all. And why was that ? It had been found a concession barren of results. Every insignificant measure that had been passed was pressed into the service in order to swell out the Speech ; but instead of tak ing credit for the treaty the Ministers were afraid, they were ashamed to mention it. (Oh, oh, and Hear, hear.) His opinion respecting that treaty remained unchanged, or if it had changed at all, ho was only the more strongly convinced of his first opinions. He had watched the progress of Mr. Cobden's negotiations, had perused the proceedings of the various Chambers of Commerce, and had studied the new tariff; and the very qualified guarded approval by which the Chambers of Com merce endeavoured to conceal their disappointment fully convinced him that the Ministers of England were not justified in sacrificing a very large amount of revenue and imposing on our own people a very large additional taxation in order to bribe the French nation to benefit themselves by becoming freetraders—(Oh, oh, and hisses)—especially when the Emperor was a freetrader already, and, as every one knew, had ample means for the conver sion of his people. (Laughter.) These were his objections to the treaty. The Emperor must in two or three years have granted a more free com mercial intercourse, and we had paid him 20 mil lions of money to induce him to do that which he would have done without any. (Cries of " No, no —you're wrong in your reckoning.") But he had a still stronger objection to the treaty. It was a humiliating triumph of the peace-at-any-price party, and he would state how it was achieved. There was a middle• class party—happily a very small portion of intelligent and moral and sound hearted—(oh, oh, and hisses) —English middle class—so small that ho hoped it had no disciples in Stroud—whose principle of action is trade at any price—(Oh, ob)',•--and there was enthroned in high places a more aristocratic party, whose prin ciple had been place and patronage at any price. (Laughter.) Now these two parties had nothing in common except an inability to see or hear any thing that did not tell in favour of their own views. He believed that they despised each other most cordially, but they assisted each other most effectu ally. He would not place them on the same level, for Mr. Cobden, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bright had this very high title to our respect. We might deem them unsound in opinion, illogical in their conclusions, but we felt them to be strong because they were known to be sincere, and at times even fanatical in their belief. He would not degrade them by a comparison with mere purse-worshipping politicianswho posessed neither the fire of patriotism nor the pride of statesmanship—men who made merchandise of the constitution and safety of England by sudden conversions, not veiled even in the decent hypocrisy of converted sinners, bat rather exhibiting the profligate auda city of some cool, calculating, skilful gamester whose character is so well known that he surprises nobody, while he sticks at nothing. (Oh, oh, and uproar.) Next in importance to the treaty was the budget. Now, the faults of.the budget were on all sides universally acknowledged. It was the first principle of a budget that the income should balance the expeuditure,,but the budget of last year did no such thing. It professed to find an income of £71,000,000 to balance an expenditpre of £71,000,000, but they managed to do this by borrowing £4,000,000 from the income of 1861, creating a deficiency to that extent. Besides that they took an insufficient estimate for the Chinese war, and nothing at all for our now fortifications. With this unusual deficit they proposed to repeal the paper duty, and make up that deficiency by adding to the income-tax. To that proposal he objected on two grounds—first, that the revenue could not spare the paper duty, and next, that it was a less objectionable tax than the income-tax. And he should be surprised if his constituents did not agree with him in that conclusion. (No, no.) On tho first point there could be no difference of opinion. Taxes ought to be repealed when there was a surplus, but that there was none was proved by the fact that the Government had to impose now taxes, and also to raise a loan. It was obvious, then, that the revenue could not bear the repeal of the paper duty. Now with respect to the second point. It was said that the paper duty was a more objec tionable tax than the income-tax. To that he en tirely objected, and on a ground also that interested his constituents. Putting aside the moral and constitutional grounds, he would assert that merely upon a fiscal comparison of their merits the income-tax was much more odious, oppres sive, and objectionable than the paper duty. (Hear, hear.) It was said that the income-tax was a direct tax, and thaf, as all direct taxes fell on the rich, the income-tax ought to be a popular tax. Now, there never was a greater financial fallacy. The returns which had been published showed that the tax fell with a cruel and crushing weight upon the poor man whose income was ggo, while the person who paid on an income of £50,000 a year hardly felt the pressure at ail. The number persons who paid on £l,OOO per annum was Rl5, while the number who paid on £l5O was 145,691, —not less than 172 times as many. The income of those at £l,OOO a year was put down at £786,000, while the incomes of the poor class was charged on £13,667,357. The amount actually paid by those assessed at £l,OOO was £22,950, while the amount paid by the lower classes was £318,795. But, com paring the pressure on incomes of £l5O a year with incomes over £lOO,OOO the result was still more remarkable, for 51 individuals were paying on that amount, while 145,694 were paying on £l5O, the sum paid on in one case being £5,036,000, and in the other £13,667,357. These facts showed that the tax was to be judged of not by the amount paid, but by the severity of its effect on the payer, and this especially affected the poorer classes. (A Voice—" What have you done to relieve them ?") Voted agailist the income-tax last session, and had always done so. (Hear, hear.) If any of these in come-tax philanthropists, whose bowels were always yearning for the poor, said that the repeal of the paper tax—which, in reality, would principally benefit the papermakers, the booksellers, and the newspaper proprietors —was a boon to the poor and the struggling class, he would toll them that they were experimenting on the credulity of their auditors to an extent that their intelligence would detect and defeat. But before leaving that point, he wished to make one more remark. There were some persons who thought they were doing the public good service by setting class against class, and exciting the poor against the rich, stating that the upper classes are the natural enemies of the poor, and meaning by the " upper classes" the landed gentry. But the returns to which he had referred showed that there were 150 individuals of the commercial class who, by their own endeavours, had raised incomes averag ing close upon £lOO,OOO. Now, there were not 50 noblemen who had that, or half that income. Would any one tell him that these commercial magnates were not a portion of the upper classes ? There was an aristocracy of millowners, as well as an aristocracy of landowners. They were equally eligible to be raised to distinction, and it was only the other day that the Queen raised to the peerage the son of a poor shepherd. (Hear, hear.) [The right hon. gentleman then proceeded at consider able length to answer the charges of inconsistency which had been brought against him by Mr. Ber nard, in having expressed opinions since his elec• tion for Stroud in direct opposition to those which he enunciated when he represented Cockermouth, and in his own justification cited several passages from his former speeches, pointing out certain por tions which had been imperfectly quoted, and men tioning one instance in which a passage contained in a private letter had,been represented as part of a speech delivered by him in the House of Com mons.] Those who had read and attended to his speeches would tell them that he never had be longed to that political school to which they were attached. (A Voice—" What school is that ?") They would tell them that •in 1835 he braved un popularity in refusing to give any pledge through which he could not see his way about the exten sion of the suffrage, and he said that he would not be a party to any claptrap plan unless it would have the effect intended. (Laughter.) When he first entered Parliament the Radical party had leaders of whom any party might be proud. They were men of high character, great emi nence, and vast political knowledge, with most of whom he was very well acquainted. They had their councils and their organisation, but he never was directly or indirectly associated with them, and for this reason—that there were from the first differences of principle between them and him. They were for organic change as an instru ment of improved administrative government ; whereas from the first day he entered Parliament he avowed his principle to be improved administra tive government in every department as the best means of effecting organic change. Whether in the army, the navy, the church, or the law—colo nial or foreign administration at home or abroad, he had voted in favour of those improvements, what ever might be the Ministry. There was not a single question in which he had not been in advance of the Liberal Government themselves when they were out of office. He had always protested against that blind and suicidal policy of the Whigs by which they refused concession after concession, until they had disgusted and broken up their party. They aimed at resuscitating and reconstructing them selves in office by promising a Reform Bill. Then with regard to the question of national defences. Last year it was charged against him that he had submitted a proposal to the Government which shocked the friends of economy as well as the sincere advocates of peace. When he said that the Emperor might mean invasion it was said it was a provocation to war. When he stated that the expenditure for the defence of the country would be £8,000,000 it was said that he was extravagant. When he went further, and said the sum should be raised by loan, some persons thought he was labour ing under insanity. It was upon that occasion that Lord Palmerston sneered at what he called "the rifle fever." During the recess the rifle fever began to spread. The Prime Minister caught it, and became a rifleman and the vice-president of a rifle asso ciation. Next session the Queen congratulated Parliament on the progress of the rifle fever, and a few months afterwards reviewed some 22,000 rifle patients. (Hear, hear.) But, to crown all, in July, 1859, his proposition having been defeated, Lord Palmerston, in July, 1860, came forward, reproduced his (Mr. Horsman's) arguments and his proposal, pointed to the Emperor of the French much more strongly than he (Mr. Horsman) had done, took the sum of £10,000,000, and even the most novel and boldest part of his scheme, namely, that the sum should be raised by way of loan. (Cheers.) Of course, a large majority having fol lowed Lord Palmerston into the lobby when he opposed his (Mr. Horsman's) plan, a still larger majority followed him when he accepted it. (Laughter.) With respect to foreign affairs they knew how often he had ventured to warn them as to the dangers into which they might run from their special alliance with France, and last session, when the eyes of the Government were opened to the aggressive policy of France, lie suggested that they should withdraw from that exclusive and spe cial alliance and cultivate a better understanding for their common security with all the other Cabi nets of Europe. He was blamed for the boldness of his counsel on that occasion, but a very little time afterwards, Lord John Russell said the Govern ment had adopted those views, and, amid the plaudits of the House of Commons, added that Eng land was seeking other alliances and was once more prepared, if the necessity should arise, to lead Europe against any further aggression. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman next referred to the six great questions which were brought under the con sideration of Parliament last session, and proceeded to ask if it was possible to point out one on which he had any cause to regret the course he had adopted. (A voice, " Yes, you have—upon every one," and laughter.) There was not one of those questions on which at the commencement of the discussion he was not at issue, and at painful issue, with the Government and the Liberal party, brt there was not one of these . questions on which the Government and the Liberal party before the close of the discussion did not come round to his views. (Laughter.) There was no vote, or sena_ ment, or speech of which he had the smallest cause to feel regret. He was sensible of the gene ral kindness and courtesy lie experienced from his i constituents, and, although he knew that some of them differed from him, and he was afraid would always do so, yet they were frank and manly op• ponents. He did not ask any one for their cle mency, mercy, or even for their forbearance. He stood there for justice, and not to him alone, but justice to themselves. They had sent him to Par liament to represent their principles. (Derisive cheering., and great laughter.) Tie would ask them to which of the principles they sent him to repre sent had he ever proved himself false (Cries of "To every one," laughter, and interruption.) He hoped he should not be met by an evasion like that, but that they would tell which specific prin- ciple be had been false to. (A voice, "To Reform," followed by cries of hear, hear ) They sent hito to Parliament charged with their political inte rents, which one had he abandoned ? They did not send him to Parliament to be a mongrel. spaniel or a lackey. (Cries of "We sent you to be a watch dog." Laughter.) But one of their com plaints was that he barked too much. (Laughter.) He did not come there as the ally or nominee of any particular party, but if the constituency would hold a public meeting and allow him to express his sentiments, and they thought him worthy to represent them, heshould feel it a pride and honour to undertake that service. On that understanding he went into Parliament, and he now stood before them bold and strong in the conviction that he had done his duty to them, that their Parliamentary good name, their high character, their unsullied honour had not been damaged in his keeping. He had not served them perhaps as ably as they might have desired, but this testimony he deserved—that he had served them industriottily, independently, and faith fullytothe best of the ability that God had given him. (Cheers, amid which the right lion. gentleman re sumed his seat.) On the conclusion of the right hon gentleman's speech, Mr. BOWLEY moved the following reso lution : " That this meeting, having listened to the ad dress of Mr. Tiorsman, regrets that he has felt it his duty to pursue a course of Parliamentary conduct during the past session of which it cannot but record its disapprobation —a coarse which, in their opinion, is calculated neither to promote pence or liberty in Europe, nor the true honour of this em pire. This meeting desires to express its confidence in,her Majesty's Government, and feels disappointed that during the late session of Parliament, instead of receiving the support of Mr. Horsman, to which it was entitled, it was subjected to repeated attacks which this meeting considers undeserved." The resolution, on being put to the vote, was carried almost unanimously. Mr. TionsmAN said that, notwithstanding the vote, he hoped to be for many years the Liberal re presentative of the Liberal constituency of Stroud. GALLANT AND PERNEYERING LIFE- BOAT SERVICES. The following important communication from the Rev. J. Pellew Gaze, hon. secretary of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, Branch of the Royal Na tional Lifeboat Institution, detailing the gallant and persevering services of one of the society's life boats recently placed at the back of that island, will be read with interest : Brooke, Isle of Wight, Jan. 1, 1861. On - the morning of Monday, Dec. 31, 1860, a vessel was seen close to the shore in Compton Bay by the officer of the Coastguard, Mr. Cutajar, and Charles Harding, boatman. Blue lights were shown and pistol fired until between 6 and 7 a.m., when the ship fired a gun, presumed to be a signal of distress. Shortly before 7 in the morning the usual signals (two discharges of the 32-pounder from the Coastguard gun battery) having been given, the crew of the lifeboat belong ing to the National Lifeboat Institution assembled, and the lifeboat was launched at 7.30, and after a pull of three miles through a severe heavy ground sea and breakers, and against tide, reached the vessel in Compton Bay, which proved to be the brigantine John Westley, 109 tons, in ballast, of Guernsey—the master's name George Abbott. After communicating with the master, and pointing out the dangerous position of the ship, on a lee shore, with reefs of rocks close at hand, and hanging only by a single anchor, the coxswain of the lifeboat urged upon him the necessity of securing his own safety and that of the crew by coming on shore in the lifeboat. The proffered assistance was however declined, and the boat returned at 9.30 a.m. At midday the sea increased very considerably, and the ship appeared to be labouring heavily ; when, as it was impossible after launching the boat at Brooke to pull round the point to the westward into Compton Bay, it was determined to take the boat there by road,. and to revisit the ship, from which a second distress signal had been fired. The boat transit to Compton Bay was accompanied with no ordinary difficulties ; gates had to be re moved, gate-posts cut away, and by dint of very great exertion the boat was lowered on the skidds over the cliff into the bap, the carriage being taken down afterwards. The boat was then replaced on her carriage, and amid very heavy breakers launched at 4 p.m., to search for the ship, in a thick fog and drizzling rain. After - finding the ship, and on reaching her, the coxswain again urged the master and crew to come on shore, and pointed out the uncer tainty of any assistance being possible during the night, the weather being very thick, with drizzling rain, and every appearance of a S.W. gale. All assistance was again declined. By this time darkness had come on with increased surf, and, indeed, so heavy was it, that a sea coming over the stern of tho boat on her return from the 'ship filled her to tho thwarts, but she immediately self ejected the seas. The lifeboat on this occasion returned at half-past 6 p.m. It being impossible to return the lifeboat to the boat-house, she was replaced upon her carriage, the stores safely stowed, and guards appointed to take charge of her during the night, Ist January. Signal guns of distress having been fired from the ship, at 2.30 a.m. the signal guns from the Coast Guard Battery again gave the alarm, and it was reported that the ship was stranded in Compton Bay. The crew of the lifeboat (many of whom, though worn out with the previous day's labour, had never left the boat-house) repaired imme diately to the scone of danger, and wore mustered there. At this time a heavy gale was blowing, with driving rain. At length it was discovered that the ill-fated ship had gone on shore under the White Cliff, between Compton Bay and Freshwater-gate, and that the crew during the early part of the night deserted the ship, and were taken on board a tug steamer from Southampton. I have also to inform you that the lifeboat has again returned safe to the boat-house at this station. It is my painful duty to add, that owing to the refusal of the master of the ship to leave the vessel when urged by the coxswain of the lifeboat, a fatal accident has happened to D. 111`Leod, a commis sioned boatman of coast-guard, at this station. This morning the unhappy man was lowered over the cliff in company with a comrade, to ascertain deny of the ship's crew remained on the wreck, when upon his being hauled up again, a piece of rock fell and smashed his skull to atoms. The de ceased was a man of quiet respectable habits and regarded with esteem by those with whom he was associated. He leaves a widow, on the eve of her confinement, and five children, totally unprovided for. I feel it my duty to speak in the highest terms of tho conduct of the coxswain of, the lifeboat, John Haytcr ' and the rest of the c row , w h o h ave never been absent from their respective posts from seven o'clock on Monday morning to midday on Tuesday, and who, owing to the heaviness of the sea and thickness of weather, ran very great risk on this rocky coast._ Nor can I close the report without tendering, through you, my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Cutajar, the officer of coastguard in command of this station, and the men under him, for their valuable and effi cient assistance rendered during a very trying and anxious service. (Signed) JOAN PELLEW GAZE, Hon. Sec. Brooke Station, Isle of Wight Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. WALMEIt (NEAR DEAL), JAN. 1. This morning about 9 o'clock, after a most tem pestuous night, the fog hanging over the Downs cleared away in the direction of the Goodwin Sands for a few minutes, when a vessel was observed to be on shore upon the off side of thorn. The wind had modezated, but the surf on the beach was heavy, and with a fresh breeze from the S.W. The Widmer lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu tion was launched as soon as possible, and proceeded under sail directly for the sands, which were crossed under considerable difficulty, the lifeboat being frequently filled by the seas which broke into her ; but the vessel was at length boarded, and found to be the French barque Duguay Tromin, of St.Vaast. The barque had been deserted by her crew, and the sea was making a wreck of her. Tho long-boat had apparently been hoisted out, by which it is supposed the crew had left, but no intelligence of their safety has as yet been obtained. A candle was found burning in the cabin, and some papers, from which the foregoing particulars were gleaned. No other boats were observed to be near the vessel. A steam tug lying in the Downs proceeded round the South Sand Head at the same time as the lifeboat was launched, but the latter got to the wreck first. [AnvEltTrsEmENT.l—Holloway's Ointment and Pius.— Bronchitis, Asthma, Shortness of Breath, Palpitation.— Now is, unfortunately, th e season t hr the prevalence of these complaints, and their ov.ious nature is b orne out by the weekly bills of mc.rtality. Early and proper treatment should ho adopted without hesitation or del nether need ari•io if Holloway's remedies boat laud,laud, ; i ointment may be safely and advantaQously rubbed on the back and chest, every night and rimming, precisely as salt is ru bbed upon nieat' to preserve it. I t penetrates internally, 91 appeases pulmonary excit ement. Holloway's pills shoul d be taken at the same time, as they act w i t h e nergy on the circulation, glands ) and alnoltients, and materially waist in rendering t4O ma &aural and permanent._ STATE OF TRADE. -4-- LEEDS, ian.l.—Considering the character of the weather, which has been miserably sloppy and uncomfortable for all persons passing to or from the cloth-halls or warehouses, there has been a fair amount of business done in the public cloth market to day. As a rule, settling accounts rather than buying goods is the order of the day for the first market or two of the new year, and to-day's proceedings are not of an unexceptionable character. In a review of the woollen trade of this district for the past year the _Leeds Mercury of this day says : " Viewing the home trade for the year in the aggre gate, we think it will not be an improvement on the previous year, nor will it be much less. However, if under the unfavourable circumstances of the past year the trade has maintained a firm position, it must be considered satisfactory. The foreign trade in the aggregate, like the home, has shown no decided improvement. To the United States, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and the East Indies our ex ports have fallen off considerably, but the deficiency is more than counterbalanced by the increase to China and Hong Kong and North America. The present state of the woollen trade is sound and healthy. Stocks are not large, nor is there any great preparation going on—nothing beyond what the usual requirements of the season warrant ; and as to the prospects of the new y ear, let us hope they will improve as it proceeds." ROCHDALE, 31st.—The closing flannel and wool markets here for the year 1860 have been of a rather quiet character. Prices of goods, however, continue steady, the manufacturers are well employed, and the prospects for the spring trade are of a fair character, though they are somewhat " sicklied .over" with a feeling of fear as respects continental affairs. The flannel trade of this dis trict for the year 1860 has been ono unparal leled as to its extent, and the same maybe said as to the aggregate profits. Throughout the greater part of the year the demand has been in advance of the supply, and this circumstance would warrant the inference that the manufacturers have obtained highly remunerative prices for their goods. Pro fits, however, have been diminished by both the advances which from time to time have been made in the price of wool, and by an increase in the cost of production. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, there is no doubt themanufacturers have had a very profitable year. Wool is moderately firm at present, but it is not so buoyant as it was a few months ago, the fears about a deficient supply having become little more than a thing of the past." COUNTRY MARERTS. SHEFFIELD-JAN. 1. At the market to-day there was a good attendance, and an active business was dono in new wheat, which was in advance from is to 2s per qr. Th. samples of old wheat wero also a little dearer. Oats, beans, barley, and other articles firm. The following are the quotations : Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...24s Od to 28s Od White // 1) ...Ms Od to 289 Od New rod , 9 I ...20s Od to 2550 d New white „ ~ ...24g Od to 265 6d Beans ~ ~ ...20s Od to 225 Od Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr 338 Od to 35s Od Malting ditto, „ 35. Od to 43. Od Oats 1 , ' 2ss 6d to 34s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 25 sd, and 2s 7d per 141 b. HULL-JAN. 1. At to-clay's market there was a small show of English wheat. A fair attendance, and the business doing in wheat and other articles was rather inactive at about former quo tations. Wheat.... Old white....per qr 66s Od to 7ls Od Old red New white .. ~ New red .... ~ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 62s Od to 66s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 62s 04 .._. St. Petersburg andßiga, old. 628 Od to 658 Od Barley.... English malting 4lB Od to 438 Od Grinding 348 Od to 368 Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 40s Od ........ Grinding ^ Oats English, old ArChangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 140 Friesland and Dutch 04.40 to 0415 d Swedish and Danish oBl4d to osl4ld Beans ....English, old, per qr. 49s Od to 51s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od to 44s Od Egyptian .. 38s Od to 40s Od Peas .. Foreign breakers . 43s Od to 46s Od Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s 0(1 Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 54s Od crushing Linseed cakes lulD £lo 10 oto £lO 15 0 Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5 5 oto . 8 0 0 Bones 5 0 oto 5 5 0 NEWARK-JAN. 2. The show of wheat to-day was pretty fair, and the at tendance of buyers was good, with an activo business. The barley trade was more active. Oats steady. Beans were a limited show, but firm. Peas an inactive demand, at late rates. White wheat, new, 62s to 76s Barley, grinding.. 32s to 363 Red do. s6s to 70s Oats, old, .. 348 to 38s Old white 62s to 76s New do 24s to 29s Red do. 628 to 76s Beans.. 64s to 68a Barley, malting... . 38s to 45s Beans, new.. 40a to 47a Pea5,....37e to 40a. COAL MAR] (Prices of Coal per Ton a " s. d. s, d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 17 3 Hastings Hartley ....17 6 Auckland Park.. l7 9 Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. ley 17 0 Russel's Hetton 23 6 West Hartley 17 3 Kelloe .. .25 0 Davison's West Hart- North Hartlepool 18 0 ley ....17 6 ' Hetton Ships at market, 18 ; sold, 11. ET—JAx. 1. the close •t the market PRESENT TO FRANCIS ll.—According to the latest despatches received from Naples, the French ad nAiral had not yet received orders to quit Gaeta. A vessel arrived at Gaeta a few days since with a cargo of powder as a present from Queen Isabella to Francis IL [ADVERTIS]:MENT}-We quote a few more of the extra ordinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Aral lea Food : Cure No. 180.-25 years nervousness, constipation, indiges tion and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time, W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London. 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WINFIELD.---On the Ist inst., at Chad Lodge) , Fawk E , aged ener Winfield, Esq 87. gbaston , Warwickshire John LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex Thursday, January 3,1861. Maj.-d Gen. ti Colone' Genera Henry Colone Lieutez Lieutei Genera Andrei Lieutet Tante] P. V. ] Ifra. 11 B' Mid-, After Even Area, from Crow At tion ( Hi It wa Th and a itado Prop Th Spain those withc Epire( tho Prop, lion c 111113U1 (Ns ofs Sub offi, Mee Mee Sir The