Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

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Yesterday, the Conservative candidates for South Lancashire held a meeting of their supporters in the Amphitheatre, the chair being occupied by F. Shand, Esq. Both Messrs. Egerton and Legh addressed the meeting, but certainly failed to produce any exalted opinion as to their oratorical fitness for the position to which they aspire. Considering the vast commercial and manufacturing interests of South Lancashire, it would, indeed, be an anomaly if two gentlemen so totally ignorant of commercial pursuits should be elected as the exponents of its claims and interests in the House of Commons. The meeting was not so largely attended as usual at the Amphi theatre. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., moved a resolution pledging the meeting to support Messrs. Egerton.and Legh, and, in doing so, utterly shattered the notion which has prevailed in some quarters that he was making rapid advances to the Reform ranks. A more Tory speech has not been delivered since the dissolution, and yet, at the same time, it was characterised by considerable ability, and delivered in his usual happy stile. The meet ing was also addressed by J. A. 1 obin, Esq., and Mr. James Holme. The proceedings did not occupy quite two hours. The electors of the City of London held another meeting on Monday afternoon, Lord John Russell being present. During his speech, he criticised Lord Derby's decla ration in the House of Lords, about an armed neutrality, and remarked that there was a wide dif ference between an armed neutrality and an efficient state of defence. The former implied.an interference on the one side or the other. In conclusion, he said, !` He thought that, instead of an armed neutrality— in which ca se o th er powers wo u ld naturally ask, what are your ultimate intentions P---we should be satisfied in keeping ourselves in a complete state of defence, in plac e of our present inefficient armament. was, that His advice this country should take no part in the contest,but of sue that policy which would promote the , peaceand the welfare, he might say, of mankind at laurrgoep. A very enthusiastic reception was given • to Mr. George Thompson, late M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, by the Reformers of Liverpool , at the Concert H a ll,' last night. Mr, Thompson delivered one of his eloquent speeches on the subject of Reform, which will be found fully reported in our columns of to-day. Last night's Globe estimates the political character of the new Parliament. The Ministerial gain is reckoned at 13, =lcing tiwir fet4l strength 273, but as their opponents would number 381, Ministers Would be in a. minority of 108. The Lord Mayor of London gave his usual Easter banquet at the Mansion House on Monday evening, upon which occasion Lord Derby was present, and in responding to the toast of her Majesty's Ministers he announced that England had within the last twelve hours made one more effort for peace. He stated that the Ministers had transmitted a pro posal to Paris and Vienna, offering to settle the points in dispute by mediation, on one of these two points, viz.., either the immediate disarmament of the three Powers—Austria, France, and Sardinia--or an agreement that each army shall remain in its present position, and a state of truce, if not of peace, pending the mediation. Lord Derby insisted that our neu trality must be an armed neutrality; but he dis claim-ed all desire to commit this country one way or another, -while casting upon Austria the 'responsibility of taking the first step to promote hostilities. What ever 'the .consequences of that step may be, Austria will have brought them on herself; but Lord Derby did not intend by any means to exonerate Sardinia from blame. The Easter Vestry was held at the Sessions House, yesterday, Rector Campbell presiding. Some discus sion took place concerning the Walton Cemetery, from which it appears that at least £2,000 will be required to put the place in proper order. A rather warm discussion was caused by the churchwardens refusing to state whether they intended to propose, or oppose, Mr. Whitty, for election as Select Vestry man, and amendments were carried, ousting Messrs. Jones and Cropper from the office of churchwardens. Afterwards, Mr. Jones stated that they did not in tend to nominate anyone in the room of Mr. Whitty, whose election was carried with much enthusiasm, and the motion against Messrs. Jones and Cropper was withdrawn. All the Select Vestrymen proposed were eleeted, with the exception of Mr. Satchell, of Lord-street. A poll was demanded on behalf of the latter gentleman, and the voting will commence at St. Nicholas Church, this morning. Although the London Stock Exchange was much firmer yesterday, and an advance established in the Funds and Railway Shares, the advices from the Continent do not tend to a pacific conclusion. On the contrary there appears to be an almost certainty of war. Sardinia, we are assured, has refused the ultimatum of Austria, and a grand mass is to be celebrated at Turin, this day, at which the King and his Ministers will attend. No doubt, this religious observance is to invoke success to the arms of the Piedmontese so/fliers. _ _ A Paris newspaper, of local weight, is assured that French ships of war have arrived in Genoese Waters. This all tends to confirm the impression that war is imminent. The . . Austrian Correspondenz states that the Prus sian Cabinet had received previous information of the intention of Austria to deliver an ultimatum to Pied mont, and that therefore the continued and faithful union of Austria and Prussia is still to be hoped for. The Genoa correspondent of the Express says, that the volunteers who have already entered the Pied-: montese service are more than eighteen thousand,' and you may add to the number from seven hundred to one thousand new arrivals daily. I am assured, upon the very best authority, that the spirit of these adventurous young men is the very best imaginable. They arrive at this part of the country often after enduring a variety of hardships and dangers in their flight; most of them, also, severing those domestic ties and breaking through those habits and associations which root the Italians to their native place more than any other people on earth ; and on reaching their depots, they all, even youths of family and education, willingly enter the ranks as mere private soldiers, and submit to an amount of drilling which would be intolerable to the hardest recruits. The Brussels Independence pub lishes the following from Berlin :—" There is a marked difference between the protests sent to Vienna by the three Powers mentioned by the French 3loniteur. The Russian protest is the most energetic. Prince Gortschakoff declares that the conduct of Austria is ' offensive.' The Prussian government has not posi tively protested, but has expressed regret, and de clined all the responsibility of the consequences of Austria's proceedings." The Lord Lieutenat of Ireland, and the Countess of Eglinton, will return to Ireland this day, (Wednesday.) Her Majesty is to hold a levee on the 11 th of May. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—MT. Stermittle Bennett's " May Queen" was performed at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall last night, as the first part of the society's concert. The composer conduCted it, and the hall was crowded, but the enthusiasm amongst either performers or audience was very slight. The singers, Miss Stabbach, Miss Lascelles, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Santley, had very ungrateful parts, and the accompaniments were far too loud and complicated. They might be very learned, but they were very far from being intelligible or harmonious. ,We listened in vain for anything characteristic of the gaiety of May, or the bold forester Robin Hood, who, by name, at least, figures among the dramatis personce. The progres sions are very Mendelsohnie, which may be accounted for by the devotion of Mr. Sterndale Bennett to the performance of Mendelsohn's - " Lieder ohne worte." The same peculiarities may be traced in the overture to the " Wood Nymphs," which commenced the second part. The effect was, on the whole, more pleasing, but there was nothing of a woodland or fairy-like character, except a few . bars borrowed from the "Wedding March." "A to riedi," by Mercadante, was admirably sung by„Miss Lascelles, and formed an admirable relief from the dreary pastorals we had left behind. Next, a trio, from "Roberto DevereuX," by Donizetti---" Alma bifida" --and "Ah perdona," from Mozart's " La Clemenza di Tito," sung by Miss Stabbach and Miss Lascelles---were the vocal gems of the evening. Mr. Wilbye Cooper and Mr. Santley were both rather tame, probably on account of their merry (?) makings with the May Queen. Mr. E. W. Thomas played a solo on the violin---" variations," by Ferdinand David, on a theme by Schuberg---with great elegance ; and the chorus sung, " Come, again, sweet love," very nicely, but commenced in a most unpromising way. Altogether, the concert cannot be said to rank high among the usual per formances of this society. A second undress concert will be given on the 17th of May, when the first part of Haydn's Seasons, Spring, will be given with other vocal and instru mental pieces. A LEC CURE ON JOHN PHTLPOT CURRAN.-On Monday night, Mr. T. E. Bradley delivered, in the Eldon-street School-room, to a crowded audience, his second lecture on " Illustrious Irishmen," the subject being John Philpot Curran, as,:a patriot and a senator. the Rev. R. Vande pitte moved that Mr. Tumilty, jun., should take the chair. The lecture occupied nearly two hours in the delivery, and was received throughout with repeated bursts of applause, often swelling into enthusiastic cheers. The usual vote of thanks was passed to the able lecturer, who, on reverting to Curran's dloquent and crushing denunciations of the infamous Jemmy O'Brien, Armstrong, and Reynolds, apologised for stepping out' of his way, and said : " One fondly hoped that the day when such rascally bloodsuckers, who were paid for their fiend-like services from the Treasury of a civilised government, had passed away for ever, but, alas ! it is not so, as the recent events in Ireland have too clearly demonstrated. The Phoenix trials of yesterday have disclosed to the astonished gazer of civilised lnrope the fact, that jury -Tacking, and the services, of the assassin of the witness box rival the days when Curran denounced those twin miscreants, Armstrong and Reynolds." After con trasting English sympathy with the Neapolitan exiles, and the young men so unconstitutionally and shamefully incar cerated in dungeons in Ireland without a trial, he asked, ." What have you done, Irishmen in Liverpool, by the way of earnest protest against that gross outrage upon the liberty of your cdnntrymen, and the equal gross outrage upon that institution of the country called ' trial by jury ?' What have you dune to hurl with righteous indignation into the teeth of those well-paid minions of injustice the implied and odious charge that, because you hold the faith to God your father's held, you are not eligible to sit upon a jury when your fellow Catholic brethren may be charged with any trumped-up political offence ? What bare the tens of thousands of Irishmen in Liverpool done ? o an w rs what ! Where are your leaders, to marshal you on the way that you should go ? There is said to exist in Liverpool, a body of men calling themselves " The Irish Catholic Club." What has that club done, individually or collectively, towards vindicating the outraged liberties of their countrymen, and in evincing a kindly sympathy with the victims of those nefarious proceedings ? With a few solitary exceptions— nothing ! Surely if ever there was a time when such a club should use its influence for good (if it possess any), this was the time. Perhaps at the next patriotic dinner, at the Adelphi-hotel, we shall be favoured with patriotic senti ments galore, when the would-be eloquent gentlemen. waxing warm in patriotic sentimentality, And wiping the w p 1 F: c o t i h c azekeetr hiicemfstheir patriotic t brows ; of w i 1 . 1) 1:L a ri p c a b t , r i w o t i i l c l begin to en t ertain the idea a thinking about it. ,We shall see what W e shall c., `; Gramtrrial, Salts. THIS DAY. On account of whom it may concern. THIS DAY, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at 1, Oldhall-street, 2,762 Bundles PIASSAVA, sugar stained, ex Arequipa, from Bahia, in 8 and 9, Albert Dock.—Apply to HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers. the 27th instanallt, stree at Twelve o'clock, at Oldh-t, 1,038 Bandies PIASSAVA, ax Arequipa, from Bahia, in 8 and 9, Albert Dock.—Apply to HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers, Tina DAY, the 27th instant, at TwelYe o'clock, at 1, o.dhall-street, 2,628 Bindles sound 2,859 „ Sugar-stained PIASSAVA, ex May queen, from Bahia, 6 and 7, Alert Dock.—Apply to HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers. Tins DAY, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 100 Tierces tine Carolina RICE, landing ex , langaroo, from NEW York.—For particulars apply to J. IL RAYNER and Co., Brokers. 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On THURSDAY, the sth May, and following days, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 1,800 Bales East India WOOL. „ Egyptian „ 40 „ Smyrna BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers Oa sate. JAMES BANKS, CASTLE-BUILDINGS, DERBY-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. FENCING WIRE, Black, Bright, and Galvanised; TELEGRAPH WIRE and SIGNAL CORD, Wholesale and tbr Exportation. ON SALE, GUANO, from Balina and California. JAMES GORDON, and Co„ Brokers, 11, Orange-court, Castle-street. THE NORTHERN TIMES WEDNESDAI, APRIL 27, 1859 rHE LATEST TELEGRAMS.-' FRANCE. PARIS, Tuesday, 4 20 p.m.—At one o'clock to-day the Corps Legislatif was assembled to receive the communication announced by government. Count Walewski read to the Chambers an exposition of the nogociations which had taken place. The Count then went on to say, " The Chamber would observe that, if the Emperor makes war, it is because he has been forced and constrained so to do by the aggressive conduct of Austria.. In the negotiations every pos sible moderation had been used by France." Count Moray, President of the Corps Legislatif, expressed the hope that war would be limited to Italy. M. Baroche then presented a project of law for a loan of 500,000,000 francs, and for raising the contingent of 1858 to 140,000 men. PARIS, April 26th.—The Patrie of this evening says we are assured that French troops have arrived in Genoese waters. Rentes were done after the Bourse at 62.75. MARSEILLES, April 26.—Advices have been re ceived from Naples to the 23rd instant. Disturb ances have taken place at Palermo, followed by numerous arrests. Letters received state that 300 individuals were seized. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Tuesday, April 26. —Prices this day : 3.35 p.m.—Rentes closed 62.90 for money, and 62.95 for account, the latter being a fractional rise since yesterday. Railway shares from 2 to 5 francs higher. ITALY TURIN, April 25th.—Count Cavour, in presenting . to the Senate the project of law by which all the' executive and legislative powers are conferred on the King, said that Austria has declared in her ulti matum that she will regard the refusal as a caves belli. The news of the military measure taken by France has provoked an enthusiasm which cannot be described. TURIN, Tuesday, April 26.—A religious ceremony is to be solemnised in • the Cathedral, to-morrow, which will be attended by the King and the depu ties of the Chambers. After• the ceremony, the King and his staff will leave for Allessandra. The Austrians are making preparations for the passage of the Ticino. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, April 25th.---Sardinian steamers, from the Lago Maggiore, have taken shelter in witzer land, and have been disarmed. Several members of noble family from Milan has arrived iir Lugano. Many arrests have been made in Milan among the aristocracy.' PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Tuesday Evening.—This evening's edition of the national Zeitung states that a treaty, offen sive and defensive, between Russia and France, was concluded on Friday last ; according to which Russia is to make her first mobilisation of four corps d'armee, two of whi&i are to be advanced towards the Aus trian, and two towards the Prussian frontier. WAR MOVEMENTS. The Paris correspondent of the Herald states, from an official source, that Prince 'Napoleon has left Paris for Turin. In Paris, on Monday, the garrison duty was per formed by the gendarmie and the national guard, as there were hardly any troops of the line left. The Herald's correspondent says the war is extremely popular amongst the lower classes of Paris. The Times correspondent says the Emperor will not leave Paris till next week. Prince Jerome will probably be appointed lieutenant of the empire, with a council of regency. The list of aides-de-camp and orderly officers who are to accompany the Emperor is published, though hot officially. A loan of 750,000,000 francs is considered probable, in - Paris, of which 600,000,000 will be for war expenses, and the rest to indemnify railway companies. The Minister of War is hurrying troops to the south as fast as the railways can carry them. The whole of Gen. Forey's division was expected to embark, on Tuesday, at Marseilles and Toulon for Genoa, unless countermanded.. General M'Mahon, with 20,000 men from Algeria, will probably join them there. . The Vienna correspondent of the Times says that in that capital politicians are well pleased with the Emperor's determination respecting the ultimatum to Sardinia, as negociatinc , was only playing into the hands of the French. The attacks of the Vienna papers on France become more violent every day. The Emperor Francis Joseph is stated to have read to some of his highest officers an exceedingly friendly letter just received from the Emperor Alexander. A Turin letter, of Saturday, states that the railway trains only run so far as Novara. Communication across the frontier is suspended, but the post between Novara and Milan was not interrupted. The telegraph continued . to transmit private messages between Turin and Milan. FRANCE. PARIS, Tuesday.—The Ilfoniteter of this morning con tains the following : —The Senate and the Corps•-Legis latif will be assembled at one o'clock to-day, to receive the Communication . which Government has already announced its intention, to make. Yesterday Rentes were done at 62f 60c. ITALY. Two Sardinian steamers which ply on the Lago Maggiore arrived on Monday morning at Magodino, in Switzerland, in order tds take shelter against a probable attack of the Austrians. The traffic on the Lago Maggiore has almost entirely ceased. SARDINIA. The bill for intrusting the full powers of the Constitution to the King, consists of the following two clauses, which received the assent of the Chamber in an extraordinary sitting on Saturday :—Article first : In case of war with the empire of Austria, the King should be invested with all the legislative and executive powers, and may, under ministerial responsibility, take, by royal decrees, all the Measures necessary for the defence of the country and our institutions. Article second : The constitutional institutions remain unchanged, the Government of the King having the power, during the war, provisionally to limit the freedom of the press and individual liberty. THE LORD MAYOR'S EASTER DINNER. The speech of the Earl of Derby was longer than is usual on the occasion of these civic banquets. His Lordship announced that - England had made one more effort for peace within the last twelve hours. We have transmitted a pro posal to Paris and Vienna, offering to settle the points in dispute by mediation, on one of these two points, viz., either the immediate disarmament of the three Powers —Austria, France, and Sardinia, or an agreement that each army shall remain in its present position, and a state of truce, if not of peace, pending the mediation. Lord Derby insisted that our neutrality must be an armed neutrality ; but he disclaimed all desire to commit this country one way or another, while casting upon Austria the responsibility of taking the first step to promote hostili ties. Whatever the consequences of that step may be, Austria will have brought them on herself. But Lord Derby did not intend by any means to exonerate Sardinia from blame. ELECTION NEWS. Sir Allan McNab has become a candidate for Brighton. Mr. Edwin Chadwick has retired from Eversham, being supported by neither party. Mr. Torrens McCullough has retired from Reigate. Mr. Robert Lowe is opposed by a Conservative at Comm. THE BOROUGH ELECTIONS. The bulk of the city and borough elections in England take place on Friday. The nomination in one metropolitan borough will take place on Wednesday, in eight cities and boroughs on Thursday, in 109 on Friday, and in one on Saturday. Intelligence of the nomination day has not yet been received in the case of about 60 cities and boroughs. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. - At the dinner given by the Lord Mayor of London to Her Majesty's Ministers, on Monday evening. last, Sir John Pakington, in responding to the toast of " The British Navy," perpetrated, what, in his uncontrolled imagination, he thought a joke. He said : " Whatever varieties of opinion there may be around these tables, no one will hardly expect that I should be disposed individually to pay any great compliment to the late parlia ment. (A laugh.) lam sure I shall be forgiven if I say that that was a China Parliament, and that I think it ought to be broken." The only apology the friends of the right hon. gentleman could offer for the above was, that it occurred late in the evening. The unfortunate Firstt. Lord of the Admiralty is said to have returned borne in a cab, looking very wretched MEETING OF REFORMERS. GEORGE THOMPSON'S LECTURE. A meeting was held, in the Concert Hall, last night, tinder the auspices of the Liverpool Reform Club, princi pally for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr. George Thompson, upon the general subject of Reform. There was a very large attendance, the hall and gallery being indeed completely filled. Among those on the platform were—Messrs. J. J. Stitt, Charles E. Rawlins, Charles Willmer, Charles T. Bowring, Francis Boult, Thomas Cope, James Steel, Jas.' Robinson, Samuel Peck, Samuel Hignett, Joseph Hughes, J. E. Thompson, C. W. Boote, George M'Connal, J. G. Brown, Samuel Moss, and Joseph Pannell. Mr. Willmer moved' that Mr. J. J. Stitt take the chair, which was seconded, and carried by acclamation. Mr. Stitt accordingly took the chair, amid loud applause. The Chairman said : Gentlemen, it will be my duty, in the first instance, to explain to you both the nature and the object of the meeting this evening. It is a meeting of Reformers (hear, hear), and the principal object of the meeting is that which is stated in the circular convening it—to listen to an address from George Tnompson, Esq., which will succeed certain other business , which will first come before us. Gentlemen, I consented, some three weeks ago, to preside over what was then considered one of the most ordinary meetings, of the Liverpool Reform Club. I certainly did not anticipate either the honour - and the plea sure or the responsibilities unavoidable from the position in which you have been kind enough to place me this even ing. When I look around this meeting, and remember the circumstances under which we are met, I think you will, perhaps, pardon me when I say, that the friends and pro moters of the Liverpool Reform Club---that young, and I hope I may add, promising institution (applause)--- could not but feel gratified when they saw such a meeting as this, assembled on such short notice, rallying, as the Reformers of Liverpool have always rallied around the old standard. (Hear, hear.) I hope I may take your presence here this evening as an indication of sympathy with the objects of the Liverpool Reform Club, and I am sure I may take it as the best answer that can be given to that taunt, which has been so freely used of late, that the people of Liverpool are apathetic and altogether indifferent on the great question of Reform. (Applause.) Those who taunt us thus freely, know little about English history—they know less about English character—for a greater mistake could not be made than to suppose that the calm determination of Englishmen is really indifference or apathy. Gentlemen, the circumstances under which you are assembled this night are peculiarly:critical and important. On the eve of perhaps one of the mightest military struggles that has ever upheaved the nations of the continent ; at a moment when' every hour seems, deep with the fate of nations and of empires ; at a juncture when the voice, the mighty and powerful voice of England, and when I speak of England's voice, I mean not those ventriloquistic (I hope you will excuse the expression) enunciations of foreign ministers and foreign officers, (Applause,) . but I mean the plain straightforward unmis takable voice that is heard from pole to pole, the voice of the great English nation. I say at a moment when that voice ought to be heard in the councils of Europe, the advisers of her Majesty's ministers of the crown have thought fit to deprive - our gracious sovereign of the advice and the council of her parliament, and have seen fit to plunge this country into the turmoil of a general election. (Applause.) Let the respon sibility of that azt rest upon those who have wantonly been guilty of it ; but let us, the people of England, the citizens of England, not forget the duty which that act imposes upon you. Gentlemen, I presume there is scarcely a-man in this room, thanks to the liberty of the press in this country, who did not look with some anxiety and some concern for the long deferred ministerial explanation upon our foreign affairs ; and those of you who do so, may remember the terms in which our foreign affairs was alluded to; you may remember how the Chancellor of the Exche quer, in parliament, speaking in laudatory terms of the conciliatory conduct of Austria, and how he spoke in 'damagin g c , terms of the conduct and policy, and the motives of our brave little ally in the Crimea—Sardinia. (Applause.) The only home ; the only refuge of freedom in the peninsular of Italy. And in the other house - of parliament, you may remember how the prime minister of England in his place spoke in significant terms of the impossibility that there was in England looking on with indifference at any alteration in the territorial arrangements on the borders of the Atlantic. Gentlemen, what did that mean?_- Was that a menace, or was it not a menace ? Was it calculated to excite the exalted feelings of those whose sympathies are with us,—(applause)—or was it calculated, as far as it is an opinion, to damage and depress those feelings ? Gentlemen, what is our duty in these circumstances ? It is the duty, I hold, of the people of England, now assembled upon another question, to expres their opinion decidedly upon this, and say, that it was for England to keep a strict and religious neutrality. (Great applause.) I would consider myself devoid of the common feelings of patriotism, were I not, upon this occasion to mingle my humble and feeble voice with yours in a solemn protest against all interference. You are nat for England being thrown into the scale of despotism, whether it be for the House of Hapsburg, or that of Napoleon. (Applause.) Our sy . mpathies, an I know it, that your applauses, do not lie in that direction. (Cries of " No, no.") Let us have then neutrality, and let us have our shores pro tected against every contingency, and let us keep a position of conscious power, which, when the time comes, will fit us to be arbitrators upon the side, or in the cause of right. (Applause.) Gentlemen, when we imagine what were the circumstances, which could have justified the dissolution of the two houses of parliament at this critical time, we see the utter abhorrence, the total want of sympathy with any thing like real reform upon the part of the present Ministry. They found that something should be done with the question, and that it could not bear to be postponed any longer, and they sit down to prepare a bill. It must have been a sight worthy of the graphic pen of Dickens, to have watched these gentlemen as they . sat down in their Cabinet to this reluctant task. Their physiognomies must have been something like that " meta physical rook" which Mr. Dickens has described in one of his books, whose countenance assumed rather a peculiar shape, just before he is going to be shot. They did sit down, and before their bantling saw daylight, even members of their own party saw that it was so utterly insufficient, that rather than be accomplices in such a sham, to their honour be it said, they went out from the government, and washed their hands of it, and made a clean breast of it. But if it was considered quite insufficient for their ownparty, it was considered quite sufficient for the House of Commons, quite sufficient for you. I think we have reason to thank ourselves that the House of Commons indignantly rejected it, and having been indignantly rejected they have the audacity to come forward and ask you to endorse what they did. England will give an opinion on that subject quite unmis takeable. This, gentleman, I have thought, and I dare say you have thought that, one essential feature, the sine qua non in any Reform Bill, which could be acceptable to the people in this country, namely, since the passing of the bill of 1832, such has been the progress, such the mighty develop ment of the industry and intelligence, and the spread of education in this country, that a large body of sober, thinking, industrious men of the labouring and artisan class have sprung 'up amongst us, and entitled themselves by every consideration to the possession of that advantage. (Great applause.) Now, gentlemen, I can imagine the utter bewilderment, and the utter disgust with which such intelligent men as these have tried to unravel the Chancellor of the Exchequer's ingenious statement on the first night of the debate on the Reform question, I can ima g ine how astonished they must have been to discover that there could not be found, for the intelligent working classes, a single grain of wheat in all that chaff. (Applause.) It reminded him of a game at catch-apple, and the Derby and Disraeli cabinet might find that the apple would evade their bite, even if they stretched their mouths as wide as they could, and elongated their necks as long as possible. (Laughter.) Let me impress upon you the necessity of now speaking out, and telling the men who come forward to represent you in parliament, that no reform bill will be satisfactory to the people of this country which does not make ample provision for admitting these industrious classes, of whom I have spoken, to the enjoy ment of that right, which, I am sure, they will exercise as intelligently and as independently as anyone could do. (Applause.) He concluded by calling upon Mr. Charles Edward Rawlins to move the first resolution, Mr. C. E. Rawlins came forward, and said the resolution which had been put in his hand he would read, which was as follows :—" That, in the deliberate judgment of this meeting, the Reform Bill recently introduced by Lord Derby was delusive in its character, unjust and restrictive in its provisions, and wholly insufficient to satisfy the rea sonable demands of the people. That it is also the convic tion of thi, meeting that no future Reform Bill will be Iworthy of support in Parliament, or of acceptance by the the country, which does not largely extend the franchise and give security for its independent exercise ; and, at the same time, provide for such a curtailment in the number of exist ing small constituencies, and such a re-distribution of seats as shall amount to a just recognition of the increase of pro perty and population in the present large boroughs and un represented localities. This meeting would also record an expression of its deep regret in the contemplation of the present warlike attitude of certain Powers on the continent of Europe, and of the imminence of a bloody and desolating conflict---the extent and duration of which it is impossible to foresee ; and while it has regarded with the liveliest satisfaction the united efforts of all parties in the State to promote an amicable adjustment of the question in dispute, it would urge upon the Government the solemn duty of a strictly neutral and pacific policy, and a scrupulous absti nence from all intervention, save such as may be calculated to restore the sword (should it unhappily be drawn) to the scabbard, and to secure to Europe and the world that repose, without which it is impossible for - true civilisation to advance." This, he said, was a very comprehensive resolution, much more comprehensive than any speech which he could possibly follow it with. The resolution stated the ground upon which that measure of reform .was to be obtained, which might be expected to appear, from the principles which they held, wanting in which the measure recently proposed by what he might call the present government had met with universal con demnation. It staggered him in reading over that bill. It seemed to him to be got up studiously excluding any of the measures of reform sought by the public. The franchise during late years had been unsatisfactory, and petitions had been sent repeatedly to the House of Commons. Lord John Russell, whose name they were not in the habit of con necting with the name of revolution, five years ago pro duced a bill in the House of Commons for the £6 franchise, and Mr. Walpole left the Ministry because they would not accept it. Lord Derby had the audacity to bring forward a measure---a reform bill to the House of Commons, which Made no provision for the difficulty at present existing in the borough franchise. But, instead of that, he speaks of the fair franchisement among doctors, magistrates, certified schoolmasters, as if these, or most of them, had not the power of exercising the franchise at pre sent. Lodgers were also admitted, but of a class so high as to exclude poor men, however intelligent ; and last, but not least, all parties who had £6O in the savings' bank. If that were the case, every servant in London would, ere long, manage to have £6O in the savings' bank. He thought, if such a state of things were to come to pass, a groom would come to 'a gentleman, and say, " Give me your place ; I am a holder of £6O in the savings' bank, and I will vote at your service." He had seen an advertisement one time, which was, "Wanted, a coachman, six feet high, and a protestant ;" but he thought, had this bill been carried, they would have seen instead, "Wanted, a coachman, six feet high, with £6O in the savings' bank." (Hear, hear, and laughter.) It had been shown by Mr. Bright (cheers) that there were no less than fifty-six small boroughs in England and Wales, and 9 in Ireland, in all 65, with an average of 300 electors in each, with the entire population not exceeding that of this borough, which returned 96 members to parliament, and not one of these boroughs does the government propose to disfranchise. At a former period Lord John Russell proposed to disfranchise 18 of them, and Mr. Bright in his speech at Bradford, proposed to disfranchise 18 also, and the Times at one time in one of its Liberal moments---but it soon forgot that---proposed to disfranchise every One of them, and 34 in addition. (Laughter.) And yet Lord Derby's government allows them to take their seats every one. He asked how could the government expect that such a measure as they - had brought forward be acceptable to the country. It could hardly be taken as a temporary settlement of the question. He could see at least one grain of good corn in the whole bushel of chaff which composed the bill. He would not like to make any amendment on the resolution which he had proposed, but he hoped some one would move that the word ballot be inserted. He was exceedingly happy to say that both the Liberal candidates for South Lancashire, as well as Mr. Ewart for the borough (cheers), were in favour of the ballot. When he thought of the cases of intimidation in the present state of matters, he could not but look with pleasure to what their elections might be if they had the ballot. When Mr. Grote was speaking on the subject of the ballot, and mentioned some cases of intimidation, he was met with the cries of "name ;" he ve ry properly replied that their name was legion. They were told that a vote was a trust, and so was the money in his pocket. and no man had a right to dictate to him how he should expend that money, and if a voter was possessed of ability and honesty to exercise the vote with independence, that was quite right, but, if he would not do so, who would then oppose the ballot? They were told that, if they had the ballot, they might vote, and afterwards tell a he ; but, as matters were at present, a man was more likely to tell a lie to himself, and do more harm to the country, than he would do .by voting by ballot, and for what he considered right. He was for every man doing his own voting. •(Hear, hear.) The last part of the resolution referred to foreign affairs, and he supposed they would endorse that portion of it as well as the other. There was nothing in this war, that was per haps going on at the present time, which England could be expected to take part in. The people of this country had said that Austria had a right to Venetian Lom bardy by all law, human and divine---save that law, which was most human and divine, to cast off the yoke of the tyrant when they had the power ? The true position which that country ought to take would be to see that this right was not infringed upon. He might be told that Austria had established treaties to put down dissaffection in all her states, bat be held that it was sufficient for a 'nation to be free,,and that she would be free. Looking to the war as it stood, he had not much faith in the King of Sardinia, but he had great confidence in the people, but he had best faith of all others in Austria. He hoped that England would maintain a dignified neutrality, and concluded amid cheers, by observing, that if England would b e t o h erse lf I true, nought shouldmake her rue. Mr. Boult said he would leave the first portion of the resolution to be dealt with by Mr. Thompson, and confine , himself to the second portion, namely, the question of the foreign policy of this country. It was a question of the utmost importance, and one on which the people should make themselves heard in loud and unmistakeable terms. He felt it a matter of no small congratulation, that this question of foreign policy should be at last forced into public meetings, and he hoped it would be heard on every hustings. They . had hitherto been quiet in this matter, and trusted their interests in the hands of diplomatists and statesmen ; had slumbered and slept, and .had often wakened to find that war had been entered into without their authority. They were like a body of shareholders who attended half-yearly to look over the accounts, and awake some morning to behold that it was all a swindle and a delusion. (Applause.) He knew that it had been the fashion to be told scornfully that they knew nothing about the question of foreign policy. He did not agree in this doctrine. They were told also that questions of peace and war were matters of the Queen's prerogative and of her Majesty's government, and that thev had nothing to do but to pay the bill. (Applause.) He could agree if her Majesty's ministers would pay the bill themselves and do all the fighting, themselves. (Laughter.) They might then " play such fantastic tricks before high heaven, and in the face of this world, as their evil genii might dictate." (Laughter.) But the bills, when they came in, were a little too serious. They found their trade hampered and destroyed, with the preposterous duties and taxes, from' the many squabbles they were led into with every country in the world, and for what, th e y could not comprehend. (Applause.) He said, therefore, that it was high time if they paid the piper they should choose the tune in this matter. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Their plain duty was to keep out of the impending struggle, to keep their hands clean of it, although he was not a member of the Peace Society. It- appeared to him to be very mnch a matter of ambition and desire for fresh territory, and on the other hand to get up the last step in an ancient and uniinproving despotism as ever cursed this world, He could not concur with the remark that it was a question of two despotisms. The one claimed the divine right of Kings, to govern wrong, and the other sprung from the people. A Voice : Ostensibly. Mr. Boult : It is a despotism elected by universal sufferage, and must necessarily receive an impulse from public opinion, and if he had to cast his lot in this matter, he would rather support France than Austria by far. (Applause.) It was the least of two evils. He was far from suggesting they should do so. (Hear, hear.) But the speeches of Ministers in Parliament were in favour of Austria. After some remarks in reference to the Austrian treaty of rights and the Italian people, which he said were no parties to that treaty, Mr. Boult concluded by seconding the resolution. The resolution was put to the meeting and carried. The Chairman then said they had a gentleman gracing their platform that night, whose name was impe ris h a bl y associated with the emancipation, and the amelioration of the slave. (Applause.) A gentleman whose name was equally associated in the memories of the British people in the repealing of the corn laws. (Applause.) He then introduced Mr. Thompson to the meeting. gr. Thompson came forward, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. He said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I shall not state precisely how long it is ago since I was introduced into the world, in the good town of Liverpool. (Cheers.) I will state that it is more than a quarter of a century ago that I had the privilege, in the town of my birth, to make one of my earliest efforts in the cause of human freedom, by the advocacy of the great cause of abolition of negro slavery. (Cheers.) Since that period I have at intervals re-visited this town. It has always been in essentially the same cause. I have for thirty years attended public meetings of my countrymen, and with few exceptions, they have, every one of them, been meetings for the advancement of the great cause of liberty. If any have been exceptions from that cause, they have certainly not been meetings for promoting any adverse cause. It was my privilege to see the cause of negro emancipation triumph. It was my privilege to hear William Wilberforce, just before his death, express his thanks to God that he had lived to see the day when his countrymen were willing to pay twenty millions sterling. to , achieve the ransom of 800,000 slaves in our colonies. If I have advocated the cause of personal freedom, I have also advocated the cause of freedom for those who labour to exchange the fruits of their toil for the gifts of God, by whatever country on the face of the earth they are grown. (Cheers.) I have also ventured, within the last ten or twelve years, to associate myself with the cause which brings us together this night—the cause of Parliamentary Reform. (Cheers.) My own experience encourages me to hope that that cause will speedily triumph. (Hear, hear, and Cheers,) The other ves causes to which I have referred have triumphed. Wilke rr „,.v went up to his reward with the shattered manacles °f 071, one million of those for whom he had pleaded. The n!.11, 1 pro World, of this country, in the extinction of the laws which food to come to them from distant parts of the V, accomplished one of the greatest triumphs ever achielT_ l no 4 any nation in the history of the world. Without vim! , 8 without the infraction of any law, with the sanction of the moral and the religious feeling of the entire countrnestluol obtained a victory over the consolidated landed inter o , : ter the kingdom ; and, having triumphed in that and th c r to great causes, they may look forward with confideri , the obtain, by vigilance, by union, by tempera te effQ ero object which they have in view to-night. (" e the I quite agree with what has been said by vi e, preceding speakers with regard to the Reform or rather the bill for the amendment of the represenyo"ta of the people, recently introduced into parliamen t 13 Y og ee Derby. We have some of us heard of a p la y o be c r by published announcing the play of " Hamlet" to ° formed with the part of " Hamlet" omitted. I atlPPl)s,,ern, special desire—(laughter)—but the King, th e :sowe Ophelia, and Polonitts, in fact the whole dramatis Pc' o p omitted, ' with the exception, perhaps, of The PlaK is s i e rs-' were admirably performed by her whoaMjesty'sbl (laughter)—and the Grave-diggers, were underta Lord. John Russell and Company. (Laughter.). t oys resolution which has been submitted to the meeting, tO evening, calls that measure an illusory measure• one any measure you please, if you will only descr ibe it "'chap which is a mortification, a disappointment , a rne an insult to the people of the country. I t' f ' this raeli began his speech when he i n t r oduced ° f the by stating that a necessity existed for the government or and day, by whatever name it might be called, to brill, this, a bill to amend .the representation of the pe o P' ° b b ad country in Parliament. He referred to two bills w.n l ,,a t eea been brought before the House of Commons, but Wit;istiect under peculiar circumstances. He alluded to three three promises on the part of Prime Ministers, and t ° : „ the speeches delivered by the ,Queen from the throne e'"g.os, House of Lords, and said there was a necessity for t k io aelf ernment, of which he was the organ, to bring forwa ru ro oser Reform Bill. But whence arose the necessity ? The of the resolution, about to be submitted, referred to The a lie franchises ingeniously contrived by Mr. Disraeli ; '" in ter' said, and said truly, that scarcely one of the parties, er a bise , ests in the State, whom the bill proposed to ernrt t the/ needed the boon which was offered to them, seeing t° 3f the either had the franchise already, or were, in virtue Of position which they filled, able to obtain the f ra tofi la whenever they desired it. (Hear, hear.) But a ss a id the that they were not already enfranchised, I a sk , re tort! necessity for a Government Bill on the question 0 1 , 8 pP arise out of any strong manifestations of feeling on or pe r of the lawyers, or apothecaries, or schoolmaste rs, sinners, or dissenting ministers &c., &c., &c. (Cheeof the laughter.) Admitting that these are all interests „oriel State---that there is a schoolmaster interest, an a" or interest, an interest of graduates of our unive rsities '? &c., have these interests ever obtruded their c lainl , s o l the people of this country, or gone to Parliamenk exseiti single petition upon the question? They have not. Then ree has grown out of a long series of partial or general s 'l til e , or demands for the renovation of the constitution of al House of Commons. The first Reform Bill group singe! circumstances. It is nearly a century ag,,,esf, noble Duke, in the House of Lords, prepared r o t 0 " of Parliamentary Reform, which went to an eV io exceeded by any Reform measure at present hel ° '„f 03, 15 public of this country. At the commencem ent century, we had men like Major Cartwrigh t, % l ea t ' o f Francis Burdett, in his best days, and other iner h . st cs talent, and some of them of station, proposing ni e j a •ela a re , f Reform, quite as extensive in their range as any now before the country.. (Hear, hear.) It was vi3 ; 3 rs,' upon ware--which prevented this country for man)" ; go fer' its efforts to obtain a satisfactory settlement of the f p ea l question. (Hear, hear.) When the halcyon daY s ,, e „a bee 2, returned, and after one or two questions which 70; lying over, in consequence of the distraction 01 cos attention, and the exhaustion of the public rese r f.o, l , 6l ; been met and settled, then the great question of 1 3- l to . 1 tery Reform was undertaken. I need not go 4 history of the struggle during the years 30, 31, an d um as tbos e v e t am sure I need not bring to mind, so far ~ to ec l, concerned, whose memories can carry them back' „(05, period, the fact that although no parchment was e h ri :se no written compact was entered into between t'derst!ti struggled in that cause, yet that there was an un jant`i e ing then, that when the Reform Bill should hare ", to, within the pale of the constitution those who weiridte4',4" enfranchised by the provisions of that act, they so ~,iaaliA and admitted, it was well known, through the P",icow, they derived from the working classes of the cou nt bad not forget in justice and in gratitude those who d the„ tributed so greatly by their majestic demeanour Fax eo"' inflexible resolution, to obtain the measure which ' c oo c (C ar h r e ie e d r:.) the l o V o e u l n l, tr n y at r u e r la al ps ly ed en o o n ug t h h , e w su h b e j n ee t t he m e3s s tat e h ie. into a to t quiescence. Sir, let us not forget our obligations t° ,t ste Let us not forget to-night, that we owe the lo es o c- to of of the country on the great question of Rei ° :„ e astic e , s t carrying of the preliminary measure, the grea t """ ft '''.(l 1832. It renovatad the House of Commons- 5101 into that house the men who have ever sin' ti°oooi been among its most valuable and patriotic 111 00 0 5 .4 To that house we owe---and the house convene d ti fbe t ! f e occasion, and confining ourselves exclusively t ° ,...„e1""01 reform bill---we owe a great measure of that to we t " bell 4 just adverted, and that to which my name h P des tkj kindly associated by your chairman. We owe, be si oa or„:',; the abolition of the East India Company's trading ° duer f e we owe the municipal reform ; we owe national eloichre, in Ireland, and we owe many other measures fo r , ilie,; o t should be thankful, and which we justly ascri be constitution of the House of Commons to a cerTho tees by the first reform bill. But whence has aris en ; tille2 h at sity for a new reform bill. Your chairman mos t ri r e in "" of observed that the demand for reform, no m atter o tioa„, i t quarter, has always embraced' a considerable ei t e e wino the sufferage ; it would be no reform nier, li o r a - ce. o °l ag that. That was the great. cry and obvious gP e , - be, v,,, be people of this country, Other evils there raig",,-ieg " . t bat in themselves, requiring to be rectified, reV' f "., c es" - h - ick exterminated; but these were the manifest inJu s Ti e a very few possessed a right to vote under a constita 0014 theoretically gave to other men, that is to e ve r y a 5 111 3 every man not living upon alms, every man ', v. : is , tl) e habitation, every man with a chimney to his u °- ,„ e fireplace chimneyor vn e ops vote. eiat.cuet constitution under the smoking,vat e h b e oa u c atr h ni i gdt m hh n tet e ht y leoi , bpeeve a ret n ar d lbyi t yusb a ubcolhfi n e mogu. aburns ll : 1,1 1 '1 st a • c ) roilli , 10:00 09 0; p . rese to e lect ! o f why, many, many generations ago, we can po nt , t he a le , il eat of knights of the shire in this country where ah, re p tho se the county came together to say who shou t so on then in the commons of England; and ibec.an occasions, in those comparatively dark ual'e i r til a c Y r : ° el lo ; occasional confusion, sometimes even violence , .a elio n ' i rb° inconvenience, it was decided that the franchise t hose 'OO limited at the election of knights of the shire, t 0 dai, s 4os. possessed a bona fide 40s. freehold, which in tu ° tha t tir a property of some consideration, and, therefore,ristoet;i, freehold, cheaply as it is regarded by sor ° ,b a is wil d i cof of the present day, is a curtailment of the fra i nv we e are„ s " to, existed prior to the enactment of that act, an' aereo only going back again, and onl going back h e Y os . ten_ po e e f t! the institutions of our country, y during the lo ie the prevalence of which the people and the w (Cheije had a voice in the election of their representatives. the 1 ire We.have had all kinds of demands made ule ( re. yfe, lature of the country with regard to the stnarsots, have had the universal suffrage of the Charsoffralibe h hedbod lt a r y . e st h ur ad ge t a h n e d co m m r p . l H ete en s r u y ffr v ag m e ee a n nd t. m l a y .n e ll e r ac e Westminster reform suffrage, that sa y i s to & e. t o suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial Parlianient, one of these schemes emanating from any ninn calling cons self a Reformer or a Liberal, contemplated a o aeta . ,ief able extension of the suffrage. (Hear, hear.) I d t If ° ne.e e rball for the extension of the suffrage which create adm it for reform, if there was any necessity ; bu t . 1 'a n ece V taking Mr. Disraoli's bill, there never did es is t la tfoil i i as for such a bill. I defy any man to ascend this P et , a 1 /"; o sfi say that there ever had been a demand for Sli wh ich t o this. (Hear, hear.) The one provision in 1 _ f a r e, just and reasonable was al r eady granted, a i u „ a nt i" t ies affirmation of the House of Commons ceul" in eoallthet declaring that the principle of a £lO s uffrage tion to e o f was a just one. Mr. Locke King's annual Lotion 01 effect had at last received the confirmation of ti, n . o ss, er e Commons. As for the rest of the bill, there -tr ne u the 111 ? t s . tia; necessity for any one of the provisions. lv k h e en t he tb n fi e' Moses came forth (cheers and laughter)--' of p,rceolit, captivesgu i s hed o fE Israeliteg.pt whoplaced hadhimself been a g t r h i n e d h i n e a g ' d v os ° o f i h no e e ntr l i s house of Pharaoh, they had a right t_t7autingosee thing, well knowing that he was n e • e e l tti knowledge of the demands of the (Hear, hear.) The author of the " SYb il" cou ntrl th e well what the working classes of the d ( eser Hear, t w h h e i tt e r h . ) had lVh e entombed m h b e e dtheirraised o to expect something great, something wort,n_l hert t he , _ do e —n o, I do not say they fully expected , ihiigshtsr o 'b d i t i lte t. Yhtil _ efe ; l• o lrh f l°Yea t cle he li f cilieg o 7 l3 : sion, of the people, and of the man. Inhired noclag, opened, what came forth ? An enfranc" doctor, fit the (laughter), a briefless lawyer, a ce rtificat rePre se boe' pensioner. (Cheers and laughter.) Then, with a pa rs a nd majesty of the British p . eople, came a , ma n k. (ChefhelP Ba t ri been °l a% ra ll i in his hand, with £6O in the Savings laughter.) Well, the necessity has n o emu re iv— e ve, (Hear, hear.) The so-called Reform n l .O co the vo iv dieted ; and, notwithstanding that, N" t ien t. I bette r fear, of a bloody struggle on the contL . ,_ o uch t not, after all, whether we could b? uP eu circumstances than we are, if pexham