The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

REFORM OP SHP BNPRISINTATION AND
VOTE BY BALLor.

Mr. Bright paid his and violt to his constituents of
Birmingham on Wednesday last. The townspeople of
Birmingliem were summoned by the Mayor to meet
him in the Townhall at? o'clock on Wednesday night,
and long before that time the large 11611—galleries, floor,
and all, was crowded ; not an inch of ground was unoccu-
pied. In addition to the Birmingham people a great num•
ber of the hon. gentleman's friends from Blauchuter and
the neighbourhood were present. The Mayor took the
chair, and in a few words introduced Mr. Bright.
Mr. Bright, in rising to addreu the meeting, was re-
ceived with loud and prolonged Awing. He said,—
Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, If I exhibit embarrassment
in rieing to addreu you I must uk for your forbearance,
for, in truth, as I oast any eye over thin great assembly
I feel wed( almost bewildered, and I ain oppressed with
a consciousness of my inooposolty properly to fulfil the
duty which devolves upon me to-night. It is now
nearly three years since I was permitted, and indeed,
'ince I was able, to stand upon any public platform to
address any public locating of any countrymen, anal dur-
ing that period I have passed through • new and great
experienoe. From apparent health I have been brought
down to a condition of weakness exoeeding the weekneu
of a little child, in which I could neither read nor write,
our oonverse for more than • few minutes without die.
tress and without peril ; anal from that condition by de-
green so line as to be inperoeptible even to myeelf, I
have been restored to the comparative health in which
you now behold one. (Cheerio.) In remembrence of all
this, le it wrong in me to acknowledge here, in the jire•
emu of you all, with reverent and thankful heart, the
signal favour which has been extended to me by the
great Supreme) (Cheers.) Is it wrung that I should
take !hie opportunity of upraising the gratitude which
I feel to all °leases of ony countrymen for the number-
lees kindneeees which I have received from them during
tide period—from those high in monk, and abounding in
wealth cud influence, to the dweller in one of our Lam
cubit* moors, who aent sue a most kind aneseage to say
that he believed where he lived wee the healthiest spot
in England, end that if I would come And take up any
abode with hint for a time, though his name were
limited And his dwelling humble, he would contrive to
let m na e have a moan to pkin (Cheers.) Mr. Bright
after answering Kume unfounded and ungeneroue robe.
Bone that had been InAde againot halus, acid, lana mtill
unable to (Boom what compensation England ha. for
elks hundred millions of money she expended, or whet
minimisation Burope has for the threw hundred million.
lamandemd by all the partied engaged In the HYP4IIIIII
Wel. (Hear, hear,) It le mat sway to say how much,
but of Mile we limy be sure, that the Anuandering of
2300,(40,000 Marling by the national of Enron° in that
druggle sac had a great Influence can the entwined pries
of looney during the Mat few year., and greatly aggro.
Vatelt the premium uf the panic ilarmigh whieli we pawed
twelve iikunelie ago. Bloom.) The COMBO lime which WO
meet In the Itueelnik War collie peeame hold cheep k 1 do
llot, (llum, hear.) 1 think that the grown men of
Birmingham from 114 lean of age to 50—atill there are,
probably, not allure then 44.1.000 iii them—arc emitelliing
worth Molting at by the etateeman anal the (hhrletlen
(cheer.) k anal 1 say that the 40.800 lives which Were
loat to KIITIIIIII IleterVell to he aloislalereal before we
milled blindly Into a war with Kumla, (Hear, bear,'
Vor iiiyeelf, therefore, all .1 whit to point out to you
le Bile, that the men who ItueltAtes before he saluandere
mu nitwit blood 11114 ems much treaoure how at least
a right to he received with a'a4iiuolera animint uf Me.
r6llOll Anal forbearance, (hem-, hr.) We have had fool
illivernailente pledged to Pal papillary reform willn
in the last few year., Lord/ of, Batmen, a. Prime
Wilder, introduced a Reforo(11111, end afterwards, in
the liovernilient Aleinlemt, Lord J. Itossell lin
traeloced another I form Bill, awl elle least said of these
two Mlle, especially the letter, the bullet, (lakeside.)
The ilairernicent which lies recently been overthrown
pledged Wallin the monks, mill the House of Commune
tam larlaig Ili a 1101111111 tllll. Ina at the thoo whoa it owe
ill an uhoopouict hot 6 slot undeserved mitl (loud Misers)
spa (Sill heal both 'armor, au that we know nothing of
lie 'Articulars of wha wllll to 1111 It'e
(lie
1111 W a (10Y11111111ell UMW, the 1111111 tellllllllllYi leirlt
Why, who, during hie eliort term at, Aloe iiil66ll,
staled, 11l remeinher rlgiklill!lkat one uf the ell oldeete
kif lile ilikveralicent w?lal Meat
lie
o dem*
rauy, ter.) New, I 111,4 that Lori Derby,
bee entirely imigml dm 'idiot, thee le ea annuli won
weed to Parlialorneary reform ell Stir 4. Peel in 1616
11/1111 akinvertoti to Cormier, repeal, If he Is then our
question alley be Its pool Wide, but If lie he not—and lie
lie. never yet aoknowlealguallileealkiversion then 1 thick
it he ball reekkunable of 11410 I'lllW his course with mile
011111111111111. 11114 hi WI 144111 the lealtlllll ad the animation
lam his hmemle with came Marin. (Hear, leer,) They all
pretend now to ha very NM of the rmeetion el Reformlmt Mill they dumb tell Ile 1116011 1111111111 t. They remind
aim In the few emelt.s which they have made mean Hie
apieution, uf the condition of that &Morelli. Atiterlean
cable, of which I read the tither day his the 'Awe that
" the aliment+ were vieliale hut the signal wholly Indian
COOL" 1101%111 But having admitted that
l'arlianimitery reform IP mammary, they thereby allude
that the lament House of Common doee nut eatialain
turlly !anaemia the nation—and lei. one seep in admin..
to 1416111ve that adiailselatit from all those penman* fauna
among whom it lam hitherto Mien Auppookell that (Wrenn
mental eoulal choke he formed In this entinery, (Hear.)
Now, t du not believe that the Perliament, as at preemie
conotintierl, alma fairly represent the nation, and I think
It is capable of most diellautat proof that It dues not, Be-
fore I proceed to hurts I will mention one or two gene.
lel pronto of that mmerlion. In the year 1646, when the
great animation of the repeal of the coral laws wee under
illsokiselon, It required an earthquake to 'Bow the people
to buy their breed in the earths' inerkele a It required a
famine in Ireland—width from 114411 to 1681 brevetted the
population of that country by B,ooo,ooo—it required the
eonvencon of a Orval Minister, the break up of a greet
party, the "endangering of the constitution," and all
thou mysteriou ode Which °Modal statesinendiscovered
when the poor artisan of Birmingliouu or Manchester, or
Cite poor half•starved labourer asked this only—that
whim bread could be lied beet and °heaped In return
fur his labour he might be permitted to buy it. But
amanitas down 10 1882, when Lord Derby Wee 111 Mlle.,
he went tea dissolution, and the great question proposed
to the oonstituenties was protection. Parliament re-
assembled, and protection and Lord Derby were defeated
bya majority of 191 but when you had only a inejority
of 19 in the House of Commons against the reastablish-
meat of protection, ninteon-twentlethe of the people of
England were determined that they never would have
anything of the sort again. (Cheers.) Take again the
questione which affect the Established Church. Pro-
bably many persons in this meeting are not aware that
wording to the return of the Begistrer-General only
one-third of the people of this country have any oonnea-
Mon with the Established Church. In Scotland one-
third only of the population are connected with the
eetablishment ; in Imbuid 5 out of 8, in Wales 8 out of
10, have no connection at all with it. And yet the
Eetablished Church Is paramount in both Houses. If the
House of Commons fairly represented all the people of
the United Kingdom, the Established Church—it is as
a political Institution that I speak of It, I eay nothing of
It as • religious institation—would be much more
modest, and we should probably get Mlle changes
much more readily than we have ever gut any before.
I think it Ls very eery to show that if the present House

of Commons smillably or ot all honestly reprounts the
population of th• coontry Ilion)e ore of no avail lit
tido discussion, fur Rio figlirsil to• ors oonclualvely thot
oueli Is nut tho use, I will not trouble you with II hoop
of otolistios which you Cannot reintoollu, Ind will Pre
you u 6 p_ruof into or Iwo Imes. Toshio the grimiest
manly In Widow!, Yorkshiro shows you IR esioting
ittermollly which I. stillOl3oo4 Istil to all fair repriwil•
lotion, Thor. ors In Yorkshire Ili oniiiii buroodiul
whisk return to Porliament 10 inotuburo—thsre an
Diner eight borutight In Yorkshire whim tosiiibure
illoptltur aro 14, Now, the 10 boromilis returning the
Itl monolog, hoop not Inure than 110,01.10 a A Plll'ulailoils
whlk the eight lonoughe with the 14 nomiben have a
population of 1120,000. Now, whittler pm tale the
amount of population, the number of house* Iles au al
which they 1111 rabid to the Inemus.taa, or ' m
the 1111111h44
11 §lsetkre, the pooportion 111 loth, eame way, the tarp
borutips with the solidly, number of inembero 'mei
NOlO motto (liipopuhition, gluon limes 111. 1410111111
WIWI, Of WI 11111•11 Ilis AMINO lof M0446104* lo pay, oni
morn limo* the nuitihor of olostore, I mut ituk your al.
Notion ono othor oumperison, al II illallitil 111 pal, OW d
Own, Till preiont tilianosilor o tits Nuelietmor, you
Ninny, ropreoentittlia woolly of Nooks, Thal minty hite
Ilt polation of 1144,000, whiell le not much mou Iltai
ia-111110 population of Itirmin 114111, and yol Mugs vill
IS. orougliu ha, 11115 low thim liiitiorinlioru In tho Itins
(Winitiona, 1414,1101) prune in Hake piton' 11 mom ra,
Willie Nitiningliam, of not how limit 11110,11.10, 10 Prom 17
iniloll Inure, only nturou two invoilteri, 1 Will give you
'mother illudrotion, widali rotor. to your owit town, In
Oei S ntilivii of flo tud pietoliiro, Devudre, AO WlllithlN
lhore an 11 borough*, willoh 7.411111 Union, tor§ lo Par.
Hainaut. oilman the popitlittitin and politlialitowar
II! thou 1111 horonyli§, returning IN iiimphani to Pp a.
input, with the population ond poilllual powor of r.
iil
Hingham, You liatoo Hourly Nolo§ 1111 populitlign, ul
volt 1111Ve only two.iinfillbort 10 rtillrylitlls Yll in row ill'
inaill, (I pl.l of i /thong, ) I witilu 1 rorti 4 i lon wllii
liillidelyilliii:lir:l4llWoilitlltiltitirdnteilailliuliraltill'4!
Plif
id Ode WIN tini,.. uti y, am (len . vit I mill tae
lintel for I (hellls the pule wilt o mulls oiltly oiler,
lore Sr. 11l Oh§ mole or ilimmitino 51 mount 1100 ilium.
howl (in than loll) whoa wholo 'moiler of etil,
'mink a nut 1111011111 So Mete than No,ol%aiiil (or.
are at (111 umo lime 111 Parlipiew mem re w 111
oattolittiente tiro upwatill 1 IfilliSlUU • 111111111.1, ali:i
while the etmullimints ill 411. lOW Meld Pi aro hews
lilip proporty.tax al ill ,0110,0110, lime sonutiluentu i
te tioyillgru ary asseosed Ict the lame ?II:, at rre
tloll 11 . 1,000. IA 'Maw in tiler erowd I ' fill Olt.
t 111141411 . Thor. hi besideu bilis groat Rigid mint rig,
hollierever you go in areal 114111 11111 Ireland v.
fitil u every fla men you 1111! lave no yule, Time .
form lin, W doll I SDI 11111 II lit ty gapreeale, Inge 1
now Wll4l I Wit to get, a il I know einnelithig of
*hot 14 hos 110111—was NO &AWN As purpouly lo eachole
trim the Hui of ligature the swot butlY uf the working
liousuog tie i kingtioni, riot utipposin th 11(15at11(15 uf the
0,000, ii grperit Rion In the lilted Kingdom
1,000,000 hays the su , 116 le now I le eau, onif sum
Isoldlig (1141 1 100,(0) re %timed Ills House of itogioum,
by a fair dietri titian uf members asuriling to nambers,
tho would, In all probability,
Immense be II fair representation
of lie. opinion' of 41i. 11,000,000, llio opinions
uf 411, 1,000,000 would, to II Oullildsfalile satent, renset
and remount 1111 opinions of their fellowlowitrynien.
I(litsors,) litit thlo Is nut the eau, The law liu
aeleolul 1,0014000 to be the 'Nature of members uf Par.
Ilaiiislit, having gut that 1,000,000 they lisVs contrived,
partly by sooldent It mop bil, but very lomat by 1111 U.
Wont' mid Intention, ou Shot the political power of the
majority of thot 1,0011,000 i, frittered away and froudii•
lenity thspersed antl ilestn)yod by Ilia 1110111100 111 S/111011
utemben are distributed among the 1,(A11,00I) electors
winnowing the gladiola! body. Now, 1 wish lo ask thia
meeting—mid lob 111 try to lobe a judiolal Anil tilaplia.
'Moots view of the imaellon when we talk of reform—
what Is It that we really want? I hold It to be Ohio—
that we want to substitute a real limioet uprvoanlotion
of the poople fur that fraudulent thing which we call a
rephisentotion now, (Loud °beers.) nut tiler* la a
very 'snow' quostion tole duchlvd before we con should
take a stop. When you are about to Worm tho House
of Ouniniono are your gyve to he tlinioll to the liouor of
Puers or to the great body at the notion 1 The House of
Peen, as you know, don not travel very foal—even what
is called • Parliamentory train io too fist fur ha
norm/. i In feet, It never travels at all unloss some.
body shoves it. (Lou,) laughter.) If any man
proposes to reform Om Hooey of Cominons just we
much and no more al will show (Ito keep pies with
the whales of the House of tools, I would ask him not
to take Any trouble In the matter, but jolt to leave It
goodly where It Is. (Cheers.) If you want it to rem
-
sent Hai notion, then It Id • national queetion I ond,
having clonal to dist Ootioluslon, if Ws have coine to it,
these is no great tnyotery, I think, as to the manner In
widish it oan los krought about. The question between
the peers and ths people la one widish oannoo be evaded.
It is the great difficulty in the way of our friends it head
quarter' whoareorreform,butdon'tknow how tidbit It
woo the difficulty which Lord John Russell felt. Lard
John Ruosell—l believe you may take my word for R—
hos probably, hem asooonstion, from tradition, from his
own reading and study, and from his own just and
honest sympotlifes, • more friendly feeling towards this
question of Parliamentary reform than any other man
of his order as a statesman. (Cheers.) But, having
sold thiii, I must alio soy—what lie too would up if lie
thought it prudent to tell all he knew—that this Is with
him the grest difficulty. How can I reconcile a free
representation of the people in the House of Commons
with the inevitable disposition whieh rests in •
hereditary House of Peer.? Now, we must decide
this question, "Choose you this day whom you will
serve." If the peers are to be your masters, as they
bout their aoceoMrs were, the conquerors of your',
serve you than. (" Never I") But if you will serve
only the laws, the laws of your country, the laws in
making which you have been oonoulted, you may go on
otroight to dismwe tido great quehtion of Parliamentary
}inform. lam oot going to attack the House of Lord,.
(Laug),ter.) Matte people tell us that the Houma of
Lord. has in its tilos dune great things for fusdoin.
Well, it may be en, though I have not been so snocusful
In Boding out how or when as some people, (Cheers I
At lout slime 10110, or thereabouts', when the peers
haunts the dotoisant power in this country, I am not
able to disoover one oingle ineaoure important to 11111111ln
or Ritglisils freedom which lies emus from the voluntary
consent and good will of OHM. House. (Clieerc) And
molly, how should it? You know Wll4l a Peer N. lie
la one of those fortunate individuolo who ore described
its earning into the world " with silver spouto in Ilisir
mouths." (Laughter,) Or, to us* the inure polished
and elaborote plinseology of the poet,—

"Fortune ewe nulling to hie youth end welcomed it,
"Anil purpled mistime. nun Ms rimmed yews."
What have we at meant, In the way of franoillieef We
Items the perish Irenahlee. For getterstione, for "gee
poet, there hes been an extensive fromoitlee in all our
patches. We have Pour Law unione, which have
worked generally eatiefectorily to the country. We
1111,0 a froneltiow In Our Poor LAW 11111011 C We hay, a
corporation franchlee, and, with the exception of a
illeitki 111.000011 that people 4411 live In town, three
years before they ain &prelim it, that tremble° may be
acid to have worked generally aottefeelorily to the
country. I will Ws any tilill here whether he believe
thet In all the piiibilma, all the poor low Ultinne, and all
the corporations men hove nut eunduoted themeelvel
with great propriety and 111111111p4 tint olfoiri of their
parieltes, unions, end eterporetlons tetlifautory 1 And
I ehould like to eek them whether they would- object to
have the nine Nimble* conferred upon them for the
Archon of mentibere to the Houle oilommune, (Ware.)
There le one great Until§ pined ill eueli ofranehlie
rour registration would be Mel mid Inespenalve. There
i Another point—that whatever Ile maiming, whatever
to eseliteltine, they would not be directed egalitat any
Ulle pertlettler elm, 11 would tolmil the working people
to eleMorial power luel am NI ail it Wittlid lalllit ihe
middle, or what too be eallet the higher and richer
'loam, Therefore as made e am entreleag, it wuuld
WWII II great doed of the Bottom Bill, and would
give a ettlll.age so wide that I behove no WO would snip
pose it did toil Mod o fair reproaentetion of all el ,
I don't waill anybody Tow a MDIIIOIIIIO minimum that that
pertiettior frottellise le better titan m an atiltutia sulfrage,
tin only epeeklog of whet tiovertiment plight do, u
what it might to do, end of what It tolgicdo moreover
In Amundson's' with tile volt maJorilly o ophtlun which
m existe in title onkey on title quoit on, Ith regent to
the rentollei I Anil soy little, I now no good nlllllllll
why the rusticitiee should not be go extenelve Ilium 11. in
the borgoislot i tot there appears to be emend under.
'tending tat I te neat Mop In 'aunties shell be one
itrrt id 1 tel. But I Ildok lief greet importance thet
to 40e. Nothing nbuithl lee eiteitaod to Ali pette Ur the
niteiNingdont as fully gm it tato the people of Ittiglettd
litli Will" iiihtlertil I cube Illite to the tittelltloll
lel 1 Sh I loolleve all pgrautto who hove studied m the atter
w I Toothily Nemo he one el greet littportenee to the
eountry—linw yotiv nowhere shell he elluttod to the
varittue conotiluent Willem I will TAk pm title Ample
imeetio Wh n, at to the to uhvio rule whigh would re,
eminitend iteelf to every molt when Ant ohltilt to au
romp title ellotinent I Would he nut argue in title way?
The law hoe given eertalit permone His right of voting,
anti It promote' that every memo who leas that eight is
1114441i1e of deohlitig how lie shell vote, Hwy Mader
therefore, le of the Nellie 1111pnet1111011 ill Om ace a the
law, anti why then eitoud out every eleutor vu for the
IMO portiott of the whole Periletnent 1 1 eltal be told
that I mu not to go to the Ilitltul Stetee for an illuatra•
Mon of Milo, I will mit. I will go a little itelleile hums,
Take Ille kingdom of Needllllll, I wee ill Tlll'lllllo
year, and I made Inquiries' ea lo the mode of
*Motion and the 41101,11 MM of inemben there I
and I found thot Bonita, with a populetion
of 140,000, mturtied seven ettembere to the Pier.
dinian Parliament. !Taphole le out a 114141111W' tile a
limited Monorail like rote own, Let Ile go to the
colonic of Amanita, Take New mouth Wiles. The
eapital—lichtey—returne right membere to the New
Mouth Wolfe Parliament. In Vidor% the city of Mel.
bourne Monte 13 members to Parliament, end by tile
Hill now intneliteed by the Minieter of thet colony the
number 111 I. about to be Mowed to 16. I believe that
in Belilutn and Kanlitele both countries under a litoltsul
Monarchy, the Seine rule step, and we know that
throughout the whole of the nited MOH the number
of incilicre le allotted according to the population. In
every 10 yearn this coal. Is rcarranged.—in fact, it
works Iteelf. I do not for a moment argue that It is
neoesaary that we should get an actuary to apportion
the millibar of members Quietly twoording to hie oalcula-
Cons of the number of the population, but we have a
fair right to an honest appmximation, and without II
there eau be no fair representation of the people,
(Cheers.) Look at London, putting aside the city, If
you were to divide the six boronghs of which the lustre.
!mils is mods up, you would atilt have 19 boroughs with
900,000 population each (larger than the population of
Birmingham), and oonstituenoies of 10000. Divide
them pin and you would have 94 boroughs, each of
160,000 population, with 6,000 electors ; and when the
franchise is extended the number will be still greater.
I pay that the metropolitan boroughs and all Imp
boroughs ought to be divided or eub.divided ; they
ought to have double, or treble, or quadruple their pre-
sent number of members. (Cheers.) What a miserable
delusion it is that this great oapital of midland in.
dustry, with its 2110,000 or 900,000 inhabitante, sends
only two incubate to the House of Commons I (Chem.)
But if every man I see here before me had a vote, or if
every man °Monte had a vote, what better would he be
if lie sends two members to the House of Commons, and
some borough& of 10,000 inhabitants, equal to one of the
small °ornate of your city, have • right to return the
same number? Tile whole thing as at present arranged
Ii a disgraceful fraud. It ought to be put an end to, and
if it is not put an end to, your representation will remain
for the future very little better than • farce. (Cheers.)
11 you look at the county seats you will And that

Oh. MINI of the present Government, mol, In loot,
I wont to give a word uf warning 10 dere porton' who
aro now eugmeol, If there be guy engrigiol,.lti 1011411410 b.
lag a Holum* hill fur the nest erasion, Lel dem itut
bring lit 4 1101401,11 411i1 dam meosure, GAHM/
GBP/neat suffrage, equal illotrlbution, rote by billv4—
pa 7 of those points may not be petition i buk if there
Ili IMO thing inure &dimity ponds than another 10
the ruling einem In Milo country 11 lo that noir, when
Obey are onminittml to at Idol A temporary I doh 11
wore a permanent --eattlimiont of this steel 'LOOOIIO4I,
theffi 'm
liould bring forwent And nom 4 11111 w doh, while
it o re you outhing groal In the way of ounstitu,
Mope Imam, he food humedlately Mt.! lb hie poised
IN nothing bob A Iloluiluo and a olmm, (141111 OMNI
1 will illoappoint ivory body 1 II will imasperote all the
4io
forlorn [ it will renilor a feeling whlub lo pew not
11iir huts bitter mid inslignapt, imii within Is months
r the dill Imo WIWI apil the deal iti dloriverod we
ill be milord In ill pnibahilig Fil another amti.
thin, but All All4Alluii of A miry Mb 1 sharootor from
al we have teet Nem Who're.) ow, lam poi wile
Of hose who live Ilial you menet be free mid happy
on OF 4 1114114 N y mud AA OM, 1 1 uon
111 nubnubolll4l4llll^
1 All) Ille lasl tiorsofill o prlmo-4 ial the loollltitlons
of 0111. *malty oho be modelle pth eplan o
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OW 0/11AF OVIIIIIFY, ‘4llllllllll II Ihe plop of owe other
gauntry 1 but 1 iisy WM if we me el liberty. 10 draw
seldom produels for dr manifaellirelli ISO likwittufl
Dem every geitiltry in the wort , Why illOnld we not, II
WI Ne rill good lit 11 poi Ileo of milothor eutiiiii,ryj
lio duo al MeV liti e I Mood I Iliti /VAG!
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411401 ( ear, iear I PH 1104". VI /I Il lit°
mill awl ipilopent ent to ii pl. AIM es t leraii
I rime i of all wide so dot 11114161 f likriPrili lillirl:, li:
iiilleititeloitti7.l,l"iirprt:igti;lmulilr:ta 4 glof
ii. ionteallaii of Me ballot, Tpl In Aliketipi wit lIVI
Alf, order, miserly Nom anti a 1111likliiill In lir
eitpiymont of pliyolid ilitinforle nil a 1111111111 ties. 1101
ea aro mil known to do greal body o Slip lodide lit th e
otointry, ad *Moll 11111.0 lotio boon lii spin Is Ili
poultry r any ogo of the vitud berg Hear, heal
NoW, tel 1 any man dare .0 NI me n Ibe Moodie O
Ilils setl dee MO the Soglirdi nal on In linglaiill lo
s worse nellon 1111111 the Illiglielt notion In A iiii.rioo f
Are we loos isthmoid, are we less industriono,
ore wo loom moral, are WI Imo oublool to the aw, ate we
I N illiquid to soil to ail the isok.iiquifisionla of
llie Government ? I tre
list Iv, and II the ligholi ne.
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not limikrgry ely tilt I I 11.11111110111 VI IDlgialld PIN
10 al In tie fling and reorlog o a nation ae
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but thou persons wto soy skit the: milli I, the 111111.
billiiiii, and the hallirilw tie I UPON V VI will In Amer le
would hri tiptlldo tn g mid, du whal I will out thi—
ref INC ?Ilk Pvillds li It dun?, and they libel our
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'lbws, why alittld they not by emus arrangement
lave their own Reform 11111—lisve II introduelobito
ulloineot id supported trill( all the strength this
great national party 1 and If It be it Bill sensibly Ger
Ilid the 11111 that le being prepetred fur us in Downing•
otrool, why should we MA. With ill the unanimity till
*Met we FM oripable,—by publle meetings, by petition',
mid when the proper time doom by presenting uursolvee
al the polllng-bootho,—do everything In uur power to
pass that tonsure Mb law? I rsiud Cheers .1 Iwy that
we aro greet In number', i that united we ere groat
In oirength i that we aro Invineible in the
windily of our argument* I that we are altogether mom.
ealleble In the hullo of our 01111110, Illlieerm.l WWI we
then, I ask you even for a moment it. hopeless of our
great same 1 I feel almost emlieined even to MIRO IS All
doh a meeting ss thlo. 1 eall to mind where I di, and
who WV illO4ll Wholll I POO before me, Whom-au AM I
nub In the town of Hlrinlngliam—Engliuul'a control opt-
tal i mil do riot thud oyes look ntion the Pone of thole
who, pot SO year% ago, Amok tho fabric of privilege to
Its bast 1 (Chem.) Not a few of the strong men of
that thoo aro now white with age. They epproach
the (manse of their mortal day. It. evening is
'Moored with the remembrance of that great politest, and
they rejoice in the freedom they have won. Shall their
Who IN NU noble than they? (Urine of "No no," and
elteera WWI the One whloh they kindled No,
Win.
guided with you? (Renewed orles of 'No, no and
cheering.) Why' len the .newer In every lam You
are resolved that the lepay which they bequellied to you
you will hand down In an immolated weelth of free-
dom to your children. (Greet ohoorlng,) As for nie,
my disc Is feeble, I feel now, 'lmlay and painfully,
that I ein not whet I was. I spook with a dlininialted
Are i I mat with a lessened force • but as I am, my
aountrymen and my ounstituents, I' will, 11 you will let
cue, be found ili your rank. in the impending struggle.
(The Hon gentleman sat down mold great cheering,
which was renewed again and lupin, the audienoe rising
and waving their hal and hankerehlofs in the must
enthusiutio manner.)
Alderman Manton, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr.
Bright for his expellent 'Mims, expressed the plessure
he felt in refloating that he (Alderman Manton was li.
etrumental in introducing him to the constituency of
Birmingham, and he hoped he would long continue to
fulfil Vie duties of his present situation. (Loud
cheers.)
Mr. G. Edmonds seconded the motion, which upon
being put by the Mayor was carried amid protracted
am:laminations.
Mr. Bright briefly acknowledged the vote, and thanks
being voted to the Mayor for his oonduot in the chair,
the 100010 assembly separated.