The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

MR. FORSTER; M.P., ON EDUCATION, SPIRIT, OP TEE PITBLIO JOITENALEL 'Apropos to the disclosures contained in the Caledonian Mr. Goldwin Smith and Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., were Railway report, the Times contends that no real good can the chairman and principal speaker at the third of a series ever be accomplished until railway proprietors have of meetings now being held in St. James's Hall, under the thoroughly convinced themselves that "capital" is only auspices of the Reform League, for the political education the " revenue "of years to come, and that what is " car- of the people. Nothwithstanding the extreme inclemency ried to capital " is, in point of fact, left to be paid out of of the weather, there was a large and respectable audience. their future dividends. Hitherto they have proceeded, Amongst those present were Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. and have encouraged their directors to proceed, on the Beales, Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., &c. assumption that " capital" meant some independent Mr. FORSTER was inclined to agree with the opinions fund distinct from revenue, which ought in all fairness ex pressed by Mr. Bruce last year, that half the children and propriety to bear its proportion of the expenses of the of the working classes in England were uneducated. (Hear, line. The idea, indeed, has refined into a system, hear.) Mr. Mundella had shown that the contrast between and a species of arithmetical casuistry has been die• the working men in the lace and hosiery trades of Saxony vised for the settlement of such cases of financial and those of Nottingham in point of education, is conscience. Revenue ought to pay for repairs, but capi- most humiliating to England, although the Englishmen tal ought to pay for rendwals, or, if not merely for re• have a natural intellect higher than the others. Of 8,000 newals, at any rate for the difference between the new children employed in cotton factories in the North of work and the original. If, for instance, a railway bridge E ng land it was found that only sixty-three per cent. can had been built of wood, and when rebuilt had hoer. butt read. Thanks to the Factory '-irger proportion can of iron, it was right and fair to carry to capital the dif • read then than elsewhere. Out, more than 2,000 cliil ference of value between a new wooden bridge and a new dren in the ironwerks and pottery districts of Stafford iron bridge. Similarly, if in the ma t e rial o f ra il s iron bad shire, who have no Factory Act, though they ought to been replaced by steel, the cost of steel over iron should be have, only 22 per cent. can road. (Murmurs.) Taking charged to capital ; and the Caledonian accountants older persons: In Manchester, out of 10,000 young per actually excuse as undoubtedly harsh awl unprecedented eons, from 12 to 20 years of age, rather more than half could their resolution of placing such expeediture to the charge not read. The time had therefore come in which, as Mr. of revenue. These are but specimens of the discrimine- Samuelson in his excellent paper said, we must try and tions which have been introduced, yet they will, perhaps, fasten upon the parish the responsibility of seeing that mace to give the public an insight into the nature the inhabitants of that parish are educated. The district of railway accounts, and of the proposals which have ouglitnot altogether to pay for it ; but there is this to be said, been made in the way of reform. It is urged that that an education rate would save poor rate and county some " uniform system" should be adopted, end that rate. It would be assisted by a grant out of the central a Government audit should give security for its fund. Speaking of London, however, there is an unfair observance. This, it is conceived, would place all com- system of rating altogether. (Applause.) The Londoner panics upon a level ; and no doubt it might do so, but should be made to understand that he cannot escape the what would the result be worth ? It would prevent one burdens of London because he -lives in a particular part of company from getting advantage over another by declaring the , town. While a purely central system would be a larger dividend when such dividend had not been dangerous because it would be so curebrous that it could earned, but it would leave the true dividends of all corn- not be carried out, a purely local system would in some panics as uncertain as before. So long as expenses are cases be such that it would be of no use ; but for the local carried to capital instead of being charged to revenue, so rate to receive central aid and inspection would be most long will railway dividends represent partly borrowed iconsistent with English traditions and English principles. money, anel partly only real earnings. It is absurd to As to the religious part of the question, he would give produce as'general profits available for distribution a sum freedom to a parent to withdraw his child from any secta of money which, more or less, has been raised by loan. rian teaching ; and while he would not forbid secular It is so absurd that, sooner or later, such a system must schools, he certainly would not forbid theology. He, in destroy itself, as it has actually dom.; in the case of more than one company. There comes a time when capital can carry no more—that is, when no more money can be borrowed on the security of future revenue—and then the fact, would allow a conscience clause, such as is at present in operation in a school at Hoxton. As to whether the parent should pay or the schools be free he had only half made up his mind, and would rather leave the question open ; but system must needs end, but, unfortunately, dividends end with it. he believed that as the middle and higher classes would pay more rates than the poor, the schools would not remain The Post, after mature consideration, is convinced that a great deal too much has always been claimed by its ad mirers for constitutional government in France. But the truth is, it was by no means a happy or well-conducted ex periment. It is doubtful whether a government of the middle classes could ever become popular among French men ; but, if this should be the case at some future period, it must be administered upon very different principles to those which guided the Cabinets of the Citizen King. It is quite painful to remember the widely spread political corruption which existed in French Minis terial circles between the years 1830 and 1848, and the scandals which were constantly coming out in the most unexpected quarters. All ideas of liberty, except so far as the press was concerned, was the merest imposture. The Chambers were packed, and the electoral system unsound throughout. The machinery of government was an overgrown bureaucracy. The material prosperity of the kingdom, upon which so much stress bas been laid by the Orleanists, will not bear close examination, an(' Franc.; has advanced infinitely farther in civilisation, enlightenment, and solid wealth under the Empire than ever she did under the l‘fonarehy. elementary, but would have to include all branches, as in America. (Applause.) He trusted also that with regard to endowments the clever child of a poor man would be allowed to have his abilities fully developed. There is only one case out of a thousand where a man is fitted to spring out of his class ; but when that does cccur he should have the opportunity of doing it through our endowed schools, and he would also say through our universities. (Applause.) He admitted that there are some parents who would rather not send their children to school at all, but would have them to beg or to steal. While he would SO enlarge the Factories Act as to sweep up the children of the manufacturing and agricultural classes, he would so increase the stringency of Vagrant Acts and the num ber of ragged schools as to take in those outcasts also. What hope was there of getting this? Much more than there was some time ago. (Hear, hear.) If he has anything to do with an education bill this year, he will not propose so extremely moderate a measure as that of Mr. Bruce last year, permitting a district to educate, but will go so far as to say the district ought to do it, and must be made to educate. (Hear, hear.) Radical as lam (said Mr. Forster, amid loud applause), I am in some measure hopeful, because we have a Tory Government. One or two members have shewn they understand education, and do not participate in the ordinary prejudices against it. Sir John Pakington and Lord Stanley have shewn, though it must have been a sacrifice to them to do it, that they are in advance not only of their own, but of some other parties. We want the school master everywhere ; but we have got a schoolmaster in Downing-street now. We have got a gentleman who is edu cating his party. (Laughter.) Well, Heaven knows they , wanted educating, and it may be expected that he will teach them something in this matter. It is quite true there have been men in the Tory party who have given great assistance in popular education ; but, generally speaking, they have been exceedingly fearful and exceed ingly jealous of any change that should make education complete. If Mr. Disraeli succeeds in teaching them the necessity for that, there will be no Opposi. tiou to deal with. There will be indirect aid from Mr. Lowe and his friends, because, although no one class is master over the other, it might be well that Mr. Lowe should think so, in order to gain his great talents to the spread of their cause. It was a great mistake of his to mix the working classes and the dangerous classes to gether. By the dangerous classes is meant men who endeavour to get their living by begging or stealing. There is no part of the population to whom this class is so dangerous as to the honest working man. There have been in this city lately attempts against law and order. Who have stepped forward to denounce those attempts ? the working men themselves. Without law and order they could not live. Surely, then, they would help to root the dangerous classes out. How ? By getting hold of their children and not letting them become dangerous classes. (Loud applause.) Mr. BEALES moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Forster which was seconded by Mr. GrerrN, M.P. Mr. FORSTER replied, and proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, who, he was glad to hear, was not about to cease to be an Englishman, and who would be very useful in Parliament if he were not most useful in aiding that public opinion which in the approaching fusion of classes must rule the country. Mr. STANSFELD seconded the motion, saying that what. was wanted in the House of Commons was men of letters and culture who had sympathy with the people's cause, and such a man they found in the chairman. The motion was adopted with applause. Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH believed the great work in which Mr. Forster and others were engaged to be nothing less than a reconstruction of our institutions. (Cheers.) He would also take this opportunity of expressing his humble tribute of gratitude to Mr. Beaks, as president of the Reform League. The Reform League had done great work already, and should go on and secure a final and complete triumph of national government over the govern ment of class. Education would prevent intimidation, and would guard against corruption ; because, however sordid a man might be, he would see what a really popular government would give him, and would have the prudence to spurn a bribe. He was convinced they onl.t to give strength to local institutions, and that, while religious feeling in education should be encouraged as the highest motives of duty, sectarianism, that great obstacle to united eucation, should be avoided. (Cheers.) The Dai'y News trusts its American friends will no . e think it prejudiced if it points out that the Prussian and the Irish grievances are of a character wholly distinct. In, the former case the emigrant desires to cast off bis original citizenship at once and for ever. The ties of blood or of business, or the purposes of recreation or pleasure, may, indeed, lead him to revisit his native land, but he does so as one having no longer a personal interest in it. He does not seek to vote in the election of it., legislature he does not agitate for a change of policy or of govern ment ; he is by his own choice, and in actual fact, in the position of a foreigner to ali its domestic concerns aen institutions. But the Irish emigrant does not in the -leat desire thus to discard his nationality in Ireland. ne comes back to revindicate it. His object is to share in all the rights of Irish citizenship, and to extend them still further, and his means are the levying of we.r against the Government of Ireland in order to substitute a Government of his own choosing. It is plain that here the most essential element in considering the justice and the reason of the claim made is diametrically opposed iu the case cf the Ccr.nan one of the Irish-Aran-lean citizen. If the position of each were to be adjusted by his own in tention and desire, the former must be declared a tree American, the latter as decisively a true Irishman. For it need not be observed that there is no such thing known among nations as a hypothetical or conditional nation ality. Whoever desires to establish his nationality for one purpose meet be taken as desiring to establish it for all. Nothing but utts.:r confusion and anarchy would result from any departure from this rule. If, therefore, the Irishman in the United States seeks to renounce all con cern in Ireland, let him do so. But if he continues to assert that Ireland is his country, and if he moves heaven and earth to mould her institutions to his own ideas, he cannot justly complain if, on failure, he is taken at his word, and condemned by those institutions which he has tried to overturn. The Standard would look upon it as a great calamity an educational rate, once adopted, were to supersede the voluntary subscription. It continues : Mr. Forster prefers a local rate to a system of schools supported by the State, because he desires to secure the benefits of local manage ment. But is he not here using the same phrase in two different senses? The local management of which we have hitherto exper:enced the benefits has been the manage ment of vela:steers, who have proved their zeal in the work by pecuniary aid, and who are generally the culti vated and educated men and women of the place. The local management which a rate-supported system of schools would enjoy, would be that of a committee elected by the i-:.tepayers ; and what that committee would be, the ex- perience of the Frr-law administration has shown 113. We are not sure that even a central IT:lel:lent at White hail svoul•1 not be a better government for our parish schools than a parochial board of guardians. Assuredly the substitUtion of such boards for the present volnuteci committees would be an unmixed misfortune to the parishes and places which are at present provided with schools ; and we cannot help thinking that some better course might be devised, even in the case of those which are at present neglected, both by the local men of pro perty and the State. 'We judge, from his speech, that Mr. Forster has given no great consiticration to this part of his subject ; we would entreat him to think twice be fore he commits himself to the advocacy of a plan which would hand over the schooling of the people to the same class of men who now administer the law for the relief of the poor. An attempt was made on Saturday night to blow up the house of Captain Otway, of Castle Otway, Temple (lorry. A quantity of gunpowder was placed beside one of the walls, and an explosion took place which caused considerable damage. Mr. (' ~way is at present from home. No cause can been assigned for the attempt, as Mr. Otway is a popular landlord. A curious medal will be sold in Paris in a few days. The lead of which it is composed was a portion of that used to rivet the chains of the prisoners of the Bas tille. On one side is a somewhat confused representation of the taking of the Bastille, and the date 14th of July, 1780. On the obverse, the following inscription :—" This lead sealed the chains which chained the victims of des potism, tism and recalls the period cf liberty conquered in th e year ler." THE NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY. —This company has tired of the ten hours' system. On the occasion of the, strike last spring one of the points conceded to the engine drivers and firemen was ten hours per day and two hours the quarter day overtime. This has been found not to work, and thie month the old system of 12 hours per (.:ay and 2i the quarter over has been re-established. The money paid to the men per day will be the same, but some of the menwho struck, and were afterwards re-employed at reduced wages, will be a little better paid. It is saidthc re turn to the old system is by way of experiment fora month. ACIIIEVEINIENTS OF THE TELEGRAPH.—The Star says :--" One of the greatest achievements in the art of telegraphy was the report of Mr. Gladstone's speeches at Southport cud Ormskirk on the 19th of December hut. It is stated to have been the longest express sent through the wires in this or any other country since the introduc tion of the telegraphic system. It contained 16,382 w ords. The total nu m b er transmitted on the 18th (when Mr. Gladstone was at Cl.lham) and 19t72. was 33 , 743 words." FENIAN AUDACITY.—On Sunday the following placard, shewing the audacity of the Fenians, was exten sively posted in Dublin, but was immediately removed by the police :—" To the Citizens. —Whereas, it has been the policy of England to murder those t hree Irish men in Man chester for doing the duty of every true-hearted and true born Irishman, namely, the rescue of the popular leaders of the people, the brave and patriotic Colonel Kelly and Deasy, we therefore call on you to be prepared when called on to avenge them. God save Ireland." THE LATEST METHOD OF SWIND LING. The Letter Despatch Ofilcc, which has a shifting habitation in the Strand,. appears to be a thriving concern, if we may judge by the number of its victims. The proprietors of the establishment would seem is fix upon the moment of their visits with singular appropriateness, and the mode in which the business of the Despatch Mee is conducted betrays a good deal of ingenuity. A man presents himself at the house of the intended victim, and hands in a direc' el I.:tter, with " Foreign Despatch, Overland Route" written thereon in red iok, demanding at the same time a charge varying from four shillings to seven shil lings. Ii the servant, struck with the importance of the words, "Overland Route," satisfies the claim and asks fur a receipt, the man hands him a document something after the fashion of the following : " Dawson's Despatch Conveyance, 392, Strand, W.C. Received from the sum of 4s. 9d., charges upon despatch B 84, per Over land Route, from Rouen to London." The envelope when opened contains nothing beyond a blank sheet of foolscap paper. As the document is duly signed and is well written, it bears an appearance of authenticity which is well calcu lated to impose on the unwary, while the care with which Mr. " Gordon Osborne," who acts for the firm, selects his victims, may be gathered from the following extract from a letter which we have received :—" I suppose the fel lows saw that my house was temporarily uninhabited, a id justly presumed =the greenness of the man in posses. THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. —A correspondent, who has recently made the ascent of Vesuvius while on fire, states that the scene was grand beyond description. "From the summit of the mountain and from three srpa rate outlets five continuous torrents of molten rock, glowing with a brilliance the like of which I have never beheld, were sweeping down. These rivers of fire lighted up t' e ice-crowned rocks to our left with a lurid glare that was almost terrible to look at, while the whole atmosphere was ;rnpregnat,:d withthe hot sldphurous fumes that were given off in clouds of thick white vapour. Showers of stones, some g.s big as a man's head, were shot out of the crater to an immense height, at intervals of a few seconds, but they ( ell as lightly, to all seeming, as though they were mere sparks of fire. The mountain groaned with the hoarse wailing of a long Atlantic wave that dashes on a broken shore, while the very ground beneath our feet shook 'n answer to the roar. We seemed to be encompassed by svery conceivable earthly horror. Lava cools very quickly, ind it thus forms of itself a strong impediment to its own progress. The stream we examined was about six feet iigh, and, as far as we could see, about nine feet broad. Continually fed from the crater, it is constantly advancing sold as constantly widening. Our guide, who seemed to Le its fireproof as a salamander, actually ran up the burning )ank with no greater injury than the total destruction of boots," I THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1868. RAILWAY AND 07 HEIR COMPANIES. RIO DE JANEIRO CITY IMPROVEMENTS (LIMITED). An extraordinary general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the London Tavern— Mr. R. D. Mangles in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. It was proposed to alter the articles of association so as to enable the directors to issue shares to bearer and share warrants, but the consideration of the question was deferred till the ordinary meeting in March next. The Cissartmaet, in moving the adoption of the report, said air opinion had been expressed by some of the shareholders that they had not received that full information with regard to their affairs that they considered desirable. The directors met them on that occasion with a view to give the shareholders the fullest ieformatiou in their power, both as to the past transactions of the company and the present position of their affairs. Various charges and in sinuations had been made by some shareholders against the directors, which were wholly groundless, and no gentleman was justified in making them un less he was prepared to prove them, but he thought they need not enter into a vindication of their cha racter, as he believed it could take care of itself. But the interests of the company were a very diffe rent matter; and he might say that those interests bad been seriously damaged by those gentlemen who had formed a committee. No body of men were entitled to make the assertions they had with re spect to the board, and he believed he was in a po sition to prove that the agitation that had been got up had injured the company. The price of the shares was no indication of the value of their pro perty. The directors knew, if the shareholders did not know, that the company had enemies in Rio. An engineer, among others, had asserted that Rio, being situated in a basin, could never be drained ; but damage had also been done by gentlemen at home depreciatieg their property, so that the price of the £25 shares had been reduced to £l7 or £lB, instead of being at a premium. The concession aires, the directors, and officers of the company held one-tenth of the shares among them. They held altogether £BO,OOO. He had received a letter from a shareholder, who he believed was one of t n h a e rae m ,;_ st a i c r. ute la nop ‘ e v had sug gested that there were three p oints u p on which aa u d g 1 a h n e d —(" Name, the shareholders were entitled to information. ye S rs cot in t E The first point was as to the relation of the con tractor with regard to the completio n of the wo rk s ; the second point was as to the real amount of loss to the shareholders, in consequence of the delay in completing the works ; and t h e third point was that the shareholders should be furni s h ed with a full statement as to the extra charges incurred for private and public works. With regard to the re lation of the contractor to the completion of the works, the contract had been carried out in good faith by Mr. Brassey. The Government compelled the company to execute the works marked No. 3 on the plans first, so as to enable them to test the utility of those works before the company was allowed to proceed with works Nos. 1 and 2. Eight months were to be allowed for testing those works. The contract was based on all the works being completed in four years. The only difference be tween the contract and the prospectus was that two years were allowed for completing works in district No. 3, including the eight months, and two years for Nos. 1 and 2, making together four years. The first object was to construct the outlet. Considerable time was lost iu negotiations with the Government and individuals for obtaining possession of the land for the site of the outlet. Three changes of Minis ters took place in the interval, and after the new Government was formed the company was re quested to find another site for the outlet. A sea wall had to be built, and after considerable progress a storm arose which swept away a portion of the s wall that took two months to repair. They ex pected that under those circumstances eight months beyond the two years could be conceded to them to i test the works, and to allow them at once to pro ceed with works Nos. 1 and 2, but that was re fused. There was no blame for all this delay to the contractor, to Mr. Brassey, or to the direc tors. There was no fault to find with the contrac tors as to the completion of the works. Then with regard to the interest to be allowed during con struction, the directors estimated it would amount to £136,000, and the actual sum paid was £135,000. They estimated that the rents from the Govern ment for the works as brought into operation would have realised £132,000, aid Mr. Brassey had to subscribe £4,000 to make up the £136,000. In consequence of various delays which neither the contractor nor the directors • could prevent, the rents only realised £67,000, leaving a deficiency or a loss of £65,000 on the estimate. They also lost £lO,OOO or £15,000 on the difference in ex changes. As to the third p o i nt, t h e pu bli c wor k s were finished with the exception of £3OO worth of work to prevent the completion of which the Court of Chancery had granted an injunction, but the Government had s i nce i nterfere d w i th a view to remove the injunction and allow the works to be completed. They had 14,900 houses now drained, and they hoped to find 200 more that had been drained by them. With regard to the private works, the company did not execute any without first obtaining a written order from the owners of the property and security for the payment of the cost at a fair price. Having en tered minutely into an explanation of other matters, he stated that if it was the wish of the majority to have an independent committee to investigate the accounts, &c., he would not object to it, but he would oppose the appointment of a hostile commit tee, and would use the proxies iutrusted to him for that purpose. Mr. VILLEBOISNET said he thought the explana tion of the chairman very clear and satisfactory as far as it went. lie thought, however, that they should have an independent committee to investi gate the accounts and explain discrepancies in them that he did not unders:and. The balance-sheet showed an excess of expenditure amounting to £119,000, making the total expenditure £994,000. Colonel W. C. WESTERN at some length pointed out discrepancies between the statement of accounts and the prospectus. He did not impute anything wrong to the directors, but wished for a clear and satisfactory explanation ; and also as to discre pancies in former accounts as compared with the List accounts. Instead of Mr. Brassey guarantee ing 7 percent. during construction, according to the prospectus, it appeared he was only bound to pay £4,000 to complete the directors' estimate. Mr. H. IV. BLAKE, a director, explained that the apparent discrepancy in the accounts arose from shareholders comparing items in the cash statement with the balance-sheet, which gave particulars of the assets and liabilities of the company. He be lieved the statements would be found perfectly cor rect. COI. WESTERN moved an amendment to the effect that a committee of five shareholders be appointed to inquire into the past transactions of the com pany, with power to employ such professional as sistance as they might require, and to report the result to an adjourned meeting. Mr. F. P. WiesoN seconded the motion. After a long ,discussion the amendment was allowed to be carried by a show of hande, and it was unanimously agreed that Colonel Western, Mr. Rebut Hudson, Mr. N. Scott, Mr. Villebois net, and Mr. A. Hoyes be members of the com mittee. It was also agreed to adjourn. the meeting to that day four weeks, to receive the report of the com mittee, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. £86,000. The unexhausted borrowing', powers of the trust amount to £236,000, and coupling with this the £600,000 asked for in the bill, there will be created a capital of £836,000 with which to un dertake and complete the erection of the graving dock and other necessary works in the river and harbour. From the annual report of the harbour master it appears that during last year there were 49 steamers built and engined on the Clyde, having an aggregate tonnage of 20,327, as compered with 64 steamers and an aggregate tonnage of 28,548 in 1866, the decrease in 1867 being 15 vessels and 8,221 tons. The Lord Provost reporte I that the revenue of the trust for the half year ended De cember, 1867, amounted to £72,205, which, when contrasted with £66,252 for the corrsponding six months of 1866, showel an increase of £5,953, or at the rate of nearly £l,OOO per month. their party managers ; while both General WAsEt- INGTON and General TAYLOR, elected without a decided political record, went far beyond what could reasonably have been expected of them in en forcing the measures desired by the nation. The object of the Republican party is to carry to a suc cess the work of Recanstruction upon a basis of equal suffrage. It aims at accomplishing this without permitting the unchecked supremacy of either the white or the black at the- South— Equality, not Dominion. Yet, there is a large minority in this party who prefer that the white should rule in a qualified way ; while a fragment favour the dominion of the Negro race. It is the object of the nrijority of this party to unite them all on one platform, and secure GaANT'S aisent to his nomination by the party. They see that in th,- present temper of the people Gaaxr is esseatial to them, and they are alarmed at the strong efforts made by the Democrats to secure the General's nomination, even on an independent basis. It appears pretty clear that GRANT is maser of the situation unless some strong and sudden change takes place within the next few months. GRANT will either be the independent nominee of a new organisation, or the nominee of the Republican party. But in either case he will be the next PRE SIDENT of the United States, as far as anything still future can be predicted. The tactics of the Re publican party are directed to secure him for theta selves, while those of the Opposition are so far to detach him from the arms of their opponents, as to secure his election on an independent basis.—A nglo- American Times. LORD MALMESBURY ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. At the annual dinner of the Vales of Avon and Stour Farmers' Club, on Monday evening, the Earl of Ma'inesbury was present. In replying to the toast of " The House of Lords," proposed by the eba'rman, Mr. J. Druitt, Mayor of Christchurch, the noble earl expressed his opinion that the mem bers of that branch of the Legislature had ably performed their duty through a long space of time, through a series of changes, through changes of dynasties, changes of laws, changes of ideas, changes of sentiments, and changes of opinions. The passing of the Reform Bill of last session was a proof of this fact. They had waited patiently for some thing like 15 years, while the House of Commons and the people were considering, and fighting, and disputing, and struggling under the various opinions which were laid down upon that great measure. The House of Lords remained silent and observant, and when at last they saw that the people were satisfied that some change- must take place, that various opinions had been put forward, and had failed to conclude any measure which could be satisfactory to the nation, they did their duty when they accepted at once and without difficulty a mea sure which seemed to be, after all, although there might be some differences of opinion upon it, alto gether gratifying to the people of this country. The district in which they were holding their meet. ing that day afforded a proof of the fact that the House of Lords was open to every one whose talents and merit rendered him deserving of a place in that assembly. There had been three peers created, if he might use the expression, upon that very soil. One was Lord Stuart de Rothesay, who was a younger son, and who had no more chance of being made a peer except by his own merits than any other person in the country, who so distin guished himself abroad, who made himself so useful to the Duke of Wallington in Spain, and who so distinguished himself in his diplomatic career afrer wards. The next was Mr. Canning, the son of a very eminent statesman, but who had no better education than any other gentleman of his class. He came forward, having evidently inherited the talent of his father, and was made a peer, and he graced the peerage which he received by his dis tinguished conduct during the Indian rebel lion, and at last closed a very brief but brilliant career too soon by an early death. Last, but not least, there was the younger son of a very highly esteemed country gentleman in that parish, a man whose kindness of heart, whose charitable feelings no one old enough to remember would forget. He referred_to Sir George Rose. The younger son of this quiet country gentleman was raised to the dignity of the peerage, after having been the hero of a hundred battles in India. In conclusion, Lord Malmesbury alluded to the fact that the House of Lords might' be regarded as a house of farmers, there being probably no other body of men so perfectly acquainted with agriculture and with its principles and improvements. It was not necessary to mention names in support of that statement, because they would find at every agricultural meeting members of the House of Lords gaining first prizes, putting themselves at the heads of agricultural societies, and in every way encour aging an art and a pursuit which evidently inte rested them as men of education and good feeling towards their .countrymen. Later in the even ing, Lord Malniesbury, in respondi ng t o t h e t oast of " The Lord Lieutenant and Magistrates of the County," expressed an opinion that we were not likely for some time to see the end of the Fenian conspiracy, to the dangerous character of which the country could not be too much alive. It had the name of an Irish conspiracy ; it was sup posed to be merely an Irish conspiracy for Irish objects and Irish purposes, and to remedy Irish evils and Irish complaints, real or not. But he believed it to be more than that—that they might add to that conspiracy the feelings and the evil objects of men who were the enemies of order in all countries and in all places—(hear)—that under the guid ance of such men unfortunate and ignorant per sons fancied they were benefiting their country and their nationality, though in reality they were merely the tools and instruments of far cleverer and more wicked persons, and were bound by and affiliated to them. At present he believed the con spiracy had not in any way reached the quiet nook and corner in which they resided, but the time might not be far distant— and he felt certain that they would all readily respond to the call--when they might be summoned to assist in the preserva tion of order in the country and of peace iu their own families, and to maintain the constitution which had rendered this nation happier than any other on the face of the earth. (Cheers.) - CLYDE NAVIGATION. At a meeting of Clyde Trustees held in Glasgow on Tuesday—the Lord Provost in the chair—it was resolved to ask for borrowing powers to the extent of £600,000 in the bill for the formation of a new graving dock which the trustees intend to bring before Parliament. The new dock is to be 500 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, and 30ft. deep. The width at the entrance-gate will be 83ft., and the depth 20ft. 6in. at spring, and 19ft. 6iu. at neap tides. The cost of the ground is estimated at NORTHERN OF BUENOS AYRES, It appears that the committee appointed by the meeting held at the London Tavern on the 20th ult. to confer with the directors will not be pre pared to submit their report on Friday next, but that due notice will be given of the meeting at which the committee's report will be submitted. IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS, WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening. The quarterly assemblies of the ironmasters of this district commenced in this town this afternoon. There was a poor attendance, and little business of any kind was transacted ; a very gloomy feeling prevailed, and not without good cause, for, after some 15 or 18 months of quiet, and latterly of ex treme depression, there is no apparent prospect of reaction or improvement. In the course of the period referred to failure after failure has occurred, and rumours more or less unfavourable again to-day, whether well or ill-founded, had a tendency to in crease the existing Uneasiness. At no time within living memoryhas the iron trade of South Staffordshire been in a more awkward condition. The resolution passed at the preliminary meeting was almost forced upon the assembly by two or three influential tnem bers of the association, and in the fortnight which has since elapsed the dissentients have become more outspoken against the course then adopted. In such circumstances it is impossible to foresee what change may take place ; but it is quite certain that very few orders have come in singe the meeting re ferred to, and the anticipations are anything but ; cheering as to the contracts likely to be entered into at the meeting at Birmingham on Thursday. It is quite certain, however, that they will be on a very moderate scale ; the only favourable circum stance is that stocks of finished iron throughout the country are ascertained beyond all doubt, to be !small. The market for pig-iron is in anything but a satisfactory state, and, large as is the number of furnaces out of blast, it is not improbable that there may be an increase in that respect before many weeks are over. The North Staffordshire ironmasters in the Ex change to-day spoke of their fixed determination to adhere to the resolution passed by them last Thurs day to reduce the wages scale; they desire to put the rate back to what it was prior to the last great strike; and they assign as their reason for this re solve that they are selling manufactured iron at 15s per ton less than was fixed last January, so that practically the price is down, though it has not been actually declared lower. The first general meeting of the north of Eng land iron trade was held on Tuesday, at Newcastle on- Tyne. These meetings, on the plan of the Birmingham meetings of the Midland trade, are to be held alternately at Newcastle, Darling ton, and Middlesborough. There was a good attendance, and a few representatives from Glas gow, Barrow, and Manchester. Tha finished iron trade was reported dull, particularly in the rail de partments. Platemakers report a few more orders, but at unsatisfactory prices. In pig iron there was a moderate demand, and prices were fairly main tained. No. 1 was quoted 465. 6d., and No. 3, 435. 61., net cash. It was officially stated that the quantity of pig iron made in the Cleveland district in 1867 had been upwards of 1,142,000 tons, which is considerably above the production of any other locality. Mr. Isaac Louthian Bell presided at the trade dinner after the close of the business meeting. The movement for establishing these periodical meetings seems to have been well received by mem bers of the local trade. A PRESIDEZ'T IVITHOLT A POLICY. it is a l uc ky thing for the United States that there exists a man sufficiently strong in the confi dence of the people to announce that he will not take h unembarrassed he cannot ent er upon th e o ff ice uneo Presidency,d a embarrass e d b y party a ffili at i ons t e dge d and platforms. These words were written by General DENT, on the Staff of his brother in-law, General Grant, whose opinions he was supposed to embody. Through a strong section of the Republican party there runs a repug nance to nominating any man for the Presidency whose Republican principles have not been emphati cally announced. It appears probable that General GRANT will to illdisappoint this po r ti on o f t h e party b y declining define his views, an d re f us i ng a nomination unless made by the people without re ference to present party organi sa ti ons . li e d oes not want, says General DENT, to decide upon ques tions of public policy until they come up for settle ment. Whatever might have been the result of such a course before the succession of ANDREW JOHNSON, a Presidential policy has, through him, been so discredited that the people are not inclined to look with disfavour on a candidate who obsti nately remains silent, who declines to represent any politicians, and asks for a new organisation which will represent the people. It is clear that GRANT holds it to be the business of Con gress to shape a policy, and the business of the people so to form and control that Congress that it will express the wish of the majority. Admitting this, the duties of the PRESIDENT are execu ti ve . His work is to carry into effect themeasures which the wisdom of the Legislature shall devise. There are many in the United States who are delighted with the course taken by GRANT. They believe the policy of Presidents to have led to boundless cor ruption, and been the chief cause of the official im morality which Mr. JOHNSON, in his late Mes sage, deplored. A President withcut a policy would be a - man free to -act, able to move in any direction which he decides is for the public good while executing the policy of Congress, un hedged by greedy supporters, and with no desire to bribe men to aid in his hobbies. As a soldier, General GRANT has learnt to obey—as a Chief, to command, but he has never yet aspired to inde pendent action ; and although he declines to be the tool of any politi ca l organ i sa tion, he has, with sin gular fidelity, been true to those to whom he owed a lawful obedience. He does not seek the Presi dency, while he says he will unwillingly accept it, if in that post he can be of more service to his country. But while refusing to recognise any clique as his master when elevated to the highest position in the Re public, he emphatically states that in the people he will recognise that master, and loyally obey ite voice. That GRANT will do this few doubt ; but the ques tion may arise—What is the voice of the people? In a Republic In country there can be but one an swer. The voice is that of Congress, which by representatives gives the only means known to man kind of ascertaining the nation d wish. There is one paragraph in General DENT's letter, which we hold to be of far greater importance than any poli tical views. It is this On one point the General is quite clear. If elected he will make no appoint ments on account of political services. He believes that a reform of our civil service, such as that em bodied in Mr. JENCKES'S bill of last session, is of vital moment, and all he will ask of any candidate for position is honesty and cap tcity." The best guarantee of a President turning out well is fur ' niched by the record of his life. Loud professions of political principles are worth but little in com parison. Both Mr. TYLER and Mr. JOHNSON, elected Vice-Presidents, deserted their party on suc ceeding to the Presidency. Mr. PIERCE and Mr. ,13wczatui threw over the people in the interest of FENIANISM THE ALLY OF TOP►YISM (From the Auglo 7 American Times.) Penianisin is the most favourable movement for the Tory party that has taken place for many years in the United Kingdom. Although England never reached the advanced point attained by the Great Republic, she was hurrying along the road to De. mocracy a great deal faster than many thought safe, when the drags were put on by this conspi racy. Unfortunately for the cause of freedom, Fenianism is associated with Republicanism in the English mind. If Fenianism be an extreme of Liberty, it considers the extreme to be License— secret assassination, gunpowder plots, and terrorism of all kinds. People turn back in fear to history, and a notable instance is seen,in French experience, what the mob did when they obtained control. The Eng lish people declare the charges brought against them by the Fenians to be grossly unjust. They assert that by concocting a series of lies, by declamation, and by reiteration, they have persuaded those ignorant of the true state of English rule in Ireland that it has consisted of a brutal system of suppression, against whi3h the natives arc warranted in rebel ling, and thus they have enlisted the sympathies of foreigners. Loudly proclaiming these pretended gr:evances, they ground and justify on them acts of wholesale murder, and plots to disorganise English society. Against all this the public conscience protests. Peaceful and law-abiding, the English urge that they have neither deserved the fanatical hatred of the unreasoning Celt, nor that the sym p tthirs of so many Christian countries should be with those firebrands against them. When, however, they consider their own action abroad, they learn that they are but reaping what they have sown. Wherever even a class in a country has risen against its Go vernment, English sympathies were with the insur gents. Often the cause and the merits of the dispute were unknown or perverted, and ignorance, instead of being a barrier to the formation of opinion, gene rally led to the most prenraptious and confident decisions. The sentiment of England on foreign quarrels was at least well intended. She earnestly desired to advance the cause of freedom, and doubt less the national instinct was often right. But Fenianisrn, 'in demonstrating how wrong and there fore unjust foreigners may be in estimating the merits of a national quarrel, has shown the people the necessity of great care in allowing their feelings to influence reason. The consequence will be felt for years in England's foreign as well as domestic policy, and the advance of the principles of Liberalism will in this receive a lamentable check. So sure may be considered such a result that many assert the mov ing springs of the conspiracy are nearer England than the United States. They insinuate that because Fe nianism is working so strongly in the interests of des potism it must be aided by despots. It is not, how ever, foreign Governments that are chiefly benefited by the Irish movetn.att, for the great gainers will be the Tory party. llad STEPHENS been commissioned by Lord DERBY he coul l not have laboured more directly in the Conservative interest. England's pace on the way to Democracy had 'lately become so rapid that " Shooting Niagara" and After was freely discussed. It is lucky for Reformers that the bill was passed before the Fenians appeared in so protninent a wanner, and in so hateful a guise, or the boon of an extended franchise might for years have been postponed. The British people as a body are unfeigned lovers and well-wishers of freedom, and have given to their feelings a plain and outspoken expression. This has bad a great effect in keeping liberty alive on the Continent of Europe, and those who cherish Liberalism must deeply regret the ac tion of an organisation which, in its name, com mitting such excesses, has effectually checked the progress it professes to forward. The very liberty enjoyed by every individual in the island, native Or foreign, has furnished the conspirators with their chief means of striking against English society. The public, flying at once to first causes, ask —Can it be for the benefit of society to allow to individuals such a latitude ? If the license given be thus used against our persons and goods, would it not be wise to curtail that license, and in the interest of law and order to strengthen the hands of the Government by giving it greater powers, and increasing its means of re pression by the police and other modes. This is the temper of the public mind, and Government would experience little difficulty in passing mea sures which a year or two ago would have been impossible, and furnishes the proof that a strong eaction has taken place in England in favour of Tory principles, consequent on Fenian proceedings. The address of the Senate of the Fenian Brother hood to the liberty-loving people of England, dated New York, Dec. 12, avows the quarrel not to be with the English People, but with the oligarchy which rules them. Now the effect of their action is to strengthen that very oligarchy, and strike the heaviest blow against the liberty of the " liberty loving" people of England. If a moral question can be illustrated by a material act, the outrage at Clerkenwell is a fac-simde of the declaration of the Fenian Senate. The Fenian Brotherhood, having a quarrel with the English aristocracy, fired a barrel of gunpowder in one of the poorest streets of the metropolis, and shook down in ruin the tenements and families of the hard-working sons of toil. What bloated tyrant suffered by this outrage ? While addressing the English people as brothers with whom they recog nise an indissoluble bond of union, they have managed to create a feeling of such animosity on the part of the labouring population of England, that Irishmen who, in truth, are associated with English labourers in a community of interest,:are in danger of being mobbed. The Senate alludes to the " efforts of our people to obtain that freedom for the enjoyment of which the ALMIGHTY evi dently designed the nations ;" yet the proceedings have gone far to alienate from the cause of freedom one of the greatest nations on earth, and to esta blish a prejudice against license which time only can remove. It is strange to see the professed haters of aristocracy labouring so zealously in the c tuse of the oligarchy they denounce, and we be lieve that the Tory Government of England are working tooth and nail with the Fenians. We do not mean to say that they are exploding barrels of gunpowder in the streets, but they are making the very most of the occasion. Fenianisin would have cut but a very sorry figure had it not been thus aided. The interest of the aristocratic classes clearly lies in creating as great a bugbear as possible out of Fenianisrn—in making it as hateful as pos sible, and in representing it as the inevitable license that follows an extended liberty. They point out to the working classes, their women and children ruthlessly sacrificed, for the chance even of effect ing a paltry object—and say these are the acts of your professed friends ; it is thus that low and brutal natures rule, and such a practical instance is worth all the declamation and addresses in the world. Fenianisrn has, indeed, been a happy chance for the very classes against whom it was directed; and with the energy and wisdom of an oligarchy who seldom let such opportunities slip, they have seized upon it, and are making the most of the occasion. MISCELLANEOUS I'VE WS. From the Anglo-American Times.) The cable news mostly relates to the specie now being forwarded from Ne►v York. On the 25th December the Cunarders took out $1,000,000, and the North German Lloyd's steamer, on the 26th, car ried out another million. On the 28th the vessel that left had on board $1,250,000 in specie, and on the 2d of January the steamers that left for Europe had $1,500,000. These remittances are mainly on account of the large payments due from Govern ment in January. We also learn by the cable that General Grant, by order of President Johnson, has removed Gens. Pope and Ord from the commands of their respec tive districts, and Generals Meade and M'Donell have been appointed to succeed them. General Swayne also has been removed from the head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabatn t. All which argues great confidence and str.mg action on Mr. Johnson part. General Hancock is winning golden opinions from Mr. Johnson. He has reinstated numerous additional civil officials in Louisiana, removed by General Mower during the period he acted for Han cock. So strongly does the President approve of the new administration of the Fifth Military Dis trict, and of the order issued by the General on the 29th Novemkr, that he sent a message to Congress calling attention to it, and suggesting that some public recognition was due, if not to him, to the friends of law and justice throughout the country. Mr. Johnson remarks :—" Of such an act of his at such a time it is but fitting that the dignify should be vindicated and the, virtue proclaimed, so that its value as an example may not be lost to the nation." In this message he gives another indirect slap in the face to Congress, nor to it only, as nyty be perceived in the following passage :—" I am far from saying that General Hancock is the only officer of the American army who is influenced by the example of Washington. Doubtless thousands of them are faithfully devoted to the principles for which the men of the Revolu tion laid down their lives. Bat the distinguished honour belongs to him of being the first officer in high command south of the Potomac since the close of the civil war who has given utterance to those noble sentiments in the form of a military order." Congress adjourned on the 20th December until January 6, postponing the Finance and Cotton Tax Repeal Bills. The blouse of Representatives passed the Deficiency Bill, appropriating $12 ; 000,000 for army supplies and transport, the enforcement of the Reconstruction Act., and other expens es . Th e Rouse has passed an amendment to the Reconstruc tion Act, introduced by Mr. Stevens, providing that only a majority of those- voting, instead of a majority of registered voters, he necessary to rectify Or reject the new State constitutions in the South. Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee of the Senate, has reported a bill similar to the one he in troduced in November, providit.g for the funding of the National Debt in Furty Year Six per Cent. Bonds, the principal and interest payable in coin and redeemable at the option of the Government after ten years, and to be free of taxation; and also authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Forty Year Bonds to the amount of five hun dred million dollars, bearing 4i interest, payable in coin at London and Frankfort, to be sold or ex changed at par for Five-Twenties, and redeemable, at the option of the Government, after twenty years. The bill was bud over until after the holi days. Mr. Charles H. Van Wyck, a representative from New York, has exposed the Gettysburg Asylum Lottery swindle. Ail lotteries are more or less fraudulent; but lotteries for charitable and p itriot ic purposes are, to use the words of the New York Tribune, "stealing the livery of the devil to serve Heaven in, which is rather a worse offence than its opposite." One of the, farms in this most patriotic " do," worth $l,O )0, is advertised as worth $30,000; and the rubbish of a New York tobacconist was announo_d as diamonds, valued at $200,000. These, with other traps, miscellaneous plunder, and old junk, were made the basis of a lottery for the pretended benefit of the soldiers." The New York Citizen, in an interesting article on General Lee's position, arrive 3 at the conclusion that that gentleman may be regarded as master of the PrOsidectial situation, so far as the vote of the eleven Southern States in the electoral college can affect that issue. The Citizen considers that more than half tho negroes will follow General Lee, and that the white vote of the ex-rebel States will be solid for whatever candidate Lee may chose. "How then," says the Citizen, "is Mama Bob ' likely to go in our national struggle? for we again reiterate our belief that, as General Lee goes, the whop South will follow." This question it answers by a summary of the events which followed the surren der, under the apple tree, near Appomatox Court- Elouse, very distinctly insinuating that Lee will cast all his influence for Grant, the chivalrous op ponent for the chivalrous conqueror, convinced that the qualities which enabled Grant to reach such an eminence, and more still, the generosity, the mode ration, and the good sense he evinced in victory, peculiarly fit him, under present circumstances, for the difficult post which it is the clear wish of the nation he should fill. Mayor Hoffman's message to the Board of Alder men on the rights of foreign-born citizens natu ralised in the United States, fairly enough states the case. Putting the question aside of the Irish- American soldiers arrested for treason-felony in Ire land, of the rights of which Mayor Hoffman cannot be a judge, the argument he urges is admitted in England to be sound, and proves the British law, as well as that of the United States, which is siadlar, requires revision. " Suppose," he says, i‘ in the late war to maintai❑ our national existence, in which our adopted citizens fought with such devo tion and valour, Great Britain had openly taken sides ag Linst us, and had sent its soldiers to fight under the iritish flag on the side of revolt for our national destruction—the principle contended for by England would have made every adopted citizen barn in any part of England's dominions' fighting ou the side of the Union a traitor liable to be igno miniously executed." He adds, the first duty of a State is to its citizens, to maintain their rights and protect their persons. But, he might have added— and to control their acts. No country could endure the emigration of foiled conspirators reorganising their plot across her borders, and re-entering her territory under the shield of a foreign nationality, to carry into effect the purpose they had already failed to achieve. The common sense of mankind would be outraged by such a doctrine, and there is no nation under the sun that would be less inclined to endure it than the United States. It cannot be for the interest of any nationality to retain as citizens those who have left the country and desire to throw off their allegiance, and we believe that this is fully recognised and would be willingly acted on by Great Britain. The Holy Father. The Paris " Committee of St. Peter" has just published a statement respecting the funds col lected on behalf of the Holy Father, and the appF cation of them up to the present time. Iu its report it says : " In order to continue the works intended to place Rome out of danger of an attack, the Mi nister of Arms asked a first sum of 150,000 f., which was immediately placed at his disposal. This being a point of primary necessity a further sum of 350,000 f. has been allotted to it. Other payments have been made as follows :—Succour for the wounded, B,ooof. ; assistance for the troops on campaign, 20,000 f. ; for the damage at Serriston, 10,000 f. ; cloth for uniforms and waist belts, 28,000 f. ; artillery mountain pieces, 21,000 f. ; blan kets, 90,000 f. ; revolvers, 50,000 f.; material for am bulances, 40,000 f. ; works for the defence of Rome, 500,000 f. ; total, 767,000 f. And, as the total sum hitherto received is 1 .7n,000f., there is a disposable balance in hand of 970,0u0f. The Pontifical army, like the French, will have two kinds of muskets, some transformed on the French system, and some entirely new, on the Remington plan. The former have the a lvantage of being ready very soon. They will cost, with a supply of cartridges to the value of 50f., 75f. each ; that is, 375,000 f. for 5,000 muskets. The latter are of remarkable sim plicity, and are approved by all competent inee• With 75f. worth of cartridges they will cost 160 f. ; that is, for 5,000, 800,0001., making altogether 1,175,0001., an amount which the unpaid subscrip tions will certainly cover. Both systems are in course of execution, and will be pushed forward with the greatest celerity. These weapons will meet the first necessities of the Pontifical troops, but will not suffice to constitute the reserve indispell sable for every army. According to the views of the Minister of Arms thera are still required 10,000 new carbines, to complete the works of fortifica tion a certain number of rifled canon for the rare parts of the same calibre as those which M. de le Rochefouc tuld gave in 1860; to construct a centra barrack to remedy the excessive division of the gar rison of Rome ; to establish two or three small powder magazines, far from the habitations and near the most important positions. These necessities will entail still further expenses. Thus, in concluding , the counnittee expresses the hope that the zeal of the Catholics will not slacken, and suggests that next year—without interfering with Peter's Pence 15,000 contributions of 500 f., spread throughout the Christian world, may provide for the support of 15,000 soldiers, while a new subscription will meet the extraordinary expenses of the Minister Of Arms." Births. BURY—On tho Gth inst., the wife of E. J. Bury, Esq., of Gristhorpe Hall, Filey, of a son. 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