The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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In the House of Lord., nne in, the Marquis of Ripon
took the oaths on taking Ws seat in this Mouse under his new
title.
Several petitions were presented by Lord finckhurit ft
reference to the proceedingl of the Endowed Schools Com-
missioners.
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sw—eee.s.
The Midland RAllwav pill, the North-tastern Railway 1111,
the Cirrat D cottonii 61Iway (Steam Vessels) BA, and the
London and Ncoth.Westrou Railway 11111, were read a. third
tine and passed.
The optics Ccuria (Metropolis) Bill Wee read a third time
Slid pa.sed.
tan motion of the Bari of Alone, some rettlms warn
ordered relative to the Fraternity of Masters act Seamen In
Dundee, and their lordships ad' curried.
la the 'louse of Conionnes, Sir Ileyeate gave ecticP that
in committee on the Elections (Parliamontart and itunicitel)
Bill he would mu. rte.:see enacting littlet all comity
Mona there shall be provided one or more poling places D,,
every pariah in (treat Donate, nod every elrctcral division
in Ireland.

Ste F. Ileygato asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether the premised measure to facilitate the crectleo of
abourere hoUtes in Ireland would be Introduced in time to
become law M. the present session.
lb. Itar.mtt of Ilartingten said that be was anxious that
the rom.sure should be introduced with as little delay as pos.
MIDI., lied he hoped to Introduce It in a very ehert time, so
ttat It might become law during the present *mister).
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sir Charles Oaks asked whet-her any objection ;elated to
the prodin lion of the report upon the iutiza of the c Dice of
Rec,lver-General of Inland Revenue ; and whether the noble
lord recently appointed has had any training to fit him f.,r
the disehaelie of any duties which may attach to the 01..
Mr. Gladstone said that on a vacancy occurring in the
rinse two questions had arisen, vie , whether the office should
be abolished, and whether, if an appointment should be made,
It was desiralde that it should be made from within the de-
partoon t. The chairman of the Board f Inland Revenue re-
ported that the office could not be WWI she d, and that it wa. ex-
pedient that It shoeld ho iiL,l or 'TOM within the departnent,
consequently the appointment had been made from without
the department as h tel commonly been the case on former
occasions. The noble lord who had receive I tun ofli,e had
bad a special experience as a member of the Treasury
Board.

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Mr. Bunker's asked whet',er any recent appEcation had
been made to the Office of Woods on the part of the Admi-
ralty for supply of timber or crooks for ship or boat build-
ing . and, if so, when it was made, end what has been the
result.

Mr. litrrtaid that an application had Lean nada to the
Office of Woods by the Board of Admiralty for a very mall
quantity of timber for boathulloing. but the answer t.-turned
was that the timber could not be supplied. A simdsr appli-
cation had beau made ill October last, and the same answer
waa then returned.

Mr. W. if Smith gave notice that on the third reading of
the Army Regulation MU, Mr. Grave. would move that the
bill for the better orgaidaation of the Army having been
narrowed to an object which would entail upon the country
an uuascertained expenditure of neutral million. Occident
large permanent charge, this House is unwilling thus to add
to the pressure of existing taxation, by entering upon a
comae of unknown expenditure, and decline. to ()omen't
Itself prematurely to the expenditure, but watts until the
has pet duced • matured and comprehensive
actoidne of military ref 'em Calculated to place the army on a
sound and economical Masi..

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Lord Flans, backed by Sir J. racklngton, appealed to the
Government not to rake th• Report of the bill at to-morrow's
mornlog sitting as had been arranged, on the ground that
many members are absent at Sessions, but Mr. Gladstone re-
plied e tint that it was impossible to make a change without
great inoonvenlance but Ultimately Mr. Cardwell accepted
• Ingestion from Mr Dbraell that the "Report" should be
taken on FrVay, and the third reading on Monday. How
far the onlionents of the bill are pledged to Itnish the debate
PO the " Report" on Friday was left in some doubt;
but Mr. Gladitnne threw eut a hint thr.t, if the debate
mere not then tinished, it might be necessary to sit on dater-
daY

adlourned debate on the the Ballot BM was resumed

Mr IL James, who admitted that the abstract arguments
In favour of the change were not saftiolent to rs commend it,
and set Attn.'', there/ to prove that it was the best,
indeed, the oily practtoal remedy for bribery, tearing, arm
Undue influence. It was on the last that he laid moat stress,
because he believed bribery and treating to be on the decrease,
and there rover had been an election at which these offenceu
had been so rare as at the last Bo admitted, too, that the
change, when It came about, would be mead hitter humiliation,
became it would boa confession that the electors required to
he driven to secrecy in order to vote honestly. With regard
to undue influence he appealed to the experience of
member who had fought a borough at the last election
whether men h4l not been reduced to starvation because '
they had voted according to their comic:lane.; and he re-
ferred to the fact that moat Of the C. nservative borough mem-
ber. for Lancashire had became converts to the Ballot. I, was
Animatable to define, to detect, and there/me to punish
this offence of ur due h.P encc, and It naturally grew
Mnimereurately with the decrease of bribery. The Ballot,
however, would not only put an end to undue Influence, bet
ii would meat and Increase the leettimate inthence of
education and persuasion by the protection It gave the
Toter. Mr. James next controverted the public trust argu-
ment, contending that the only duty Imposed Oh the elector
Was to give his vote acoordlue to his own conscience, and
fib, could not perform this by open voting he had a right to
the shelter of the Ballot. In the close of his speech, Mr
James entered into a tealiMcal dissuasion of the working of
the Ballot, and showed with much ability how all the ad-
vantages of a scrutiny Might be retained under the new
system.
Mr. Illardy asked for motile explanation of the reasons,
beyond mere argument, swift', had Induced those who, as
colleagues and followers of Sir It. Peel and L.,rd Palmerston,
bad so often oppoeed the Ballot, to untte now with the
Radicals in support of it. Admitting that ma a3ures for
securing peace and traz quillity at elections were reedU, he
maintained that bribery sad undue lauence were de-
creasing, ar al denounced the Ballot vigorously as cowardly
arid tending to selfishness, hypocrisy, and lying.

The Marquis of Hartington retorted Mr. Ilardy's taunt
by suggesting that conversions on the Ballot had not been
more rapid than certain conversions about household suffrage,
and as to this Imputations of cowardice and hypocrisy, he an-
ticipated that men would cease to trouble themselves about
how their neighboun voted as noon as ever it became Minos ohs
to ascertain It with eartaintir, and all motives for concealment
would In time disappear. Ile admitted that on certain point*
there would be a lose by the sbandoment of open voting
—for Meteors, the advantage of being put on the scent
of bribery by enoe dig how a man had voted wirild
be lost ; but the baleen in favour of the Ballot was
very considerable. Bribery and personation would be last as
capable ud proof, end the coarser forms of Intimidation
would te positively pus an end to. In regard to Ireland, the
Marquis declared that there was no country which needed
the ballot more, and this he enforced by describing the vio-
lent scenes tithe Sligo and Droghed elections, and said the
80 or 90 Nationalist members with whom the House was
threatened wi uld be preferable to the present state of thing,.
If the real preponderance of opinion lay that way, by all
means let them come, that they alight learn how unalterable
Is the determination hers to maintain the integrity of the
Empire.
Mr. Beresford Hope denounced the bill as • piece of in,
morallegislation, since It was founded on no necessity, and
had no more worthy motive than to provide the party of
progress with a cry. Us derirlbed as absurdly ridlculcua
the expectation of the changes the Ballot wee to produce in
the character of the electors, ard said it was n mistake of
the same character as the attempt to correct tie morals of
the clergy by enforced celibacy, or to cure drua kennels by
compulsory water-drinking. The circumstances, political
and social, of the Australian colonies differed so ninth from
onr own that no argument emit be drawn from their ex-
perience, and though he approved the pr .visions lor kn.
proving the procedure at election., such as the abolition of
nomination days, he maintained that there was no need to he
in a hurry with this pet crotchet of a knot of philosophers.
The debate was continued by Mr. Weitire, Mr. Liddell,
Mr. Platt, Mr J. Rudy, Mr. R. Tomos, Dr. Ball, and Mr.
Y Isaiah.° 11114 on the motion of Mr. G. bentlnck, the debate
was adjourned until laureday.
The other orders were disposed of, and the Howe ad-
journed.

Jo the Donee of Lurds, June 27, the London. Chatham
and Dover Rsilway Bill was reads secemi time.
The Dogs Bill, the Metropolitan Commons Supplemental
Bill, the Poor Law, the Provisional Orders Cootirmatory
the Drainage nod I pprovement of Lends (Ireland) *Lipp e-
mental Bill, end the Pensions Commutation Bill, were read •
third time and passed.
Taneraa's Charities 811 l passed through C 3113 mittoo.
The Metropolitan Building Act (1b55( Ameodment 818 was
teal • second time.

The select committee on the Burial Grounds Bill was ap-
pointed.
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Lord Lyveden presented a petition from 6,41 Zsminders and
others lutvrested in permanently settled estates in the Presi-
dency of Fort William, cc mplaining of the Doke of Argyll'e
despatch of May 17, 1870, as a violation oi faith. This
despatch, in which the Secretary of B!ate for India affirmed
the right to levy ratea for local and educational purposes
cpcn lard in Bengal, was carried in the Council of India by a
,nqj ,rity of only one, and the Indian Government would, he
thought, do right to suspend any action upon the despatch
until the matter could be more fully copidered._

The Duke of Argyll said that the revenues of ladle were
Inruticient for the due administration of the Empire, and
the expenses of local &sinews, roads, and education must be
met by local ceases. Alter expistning the nature of the
t. permanent settlement," he pointed out the Effect of
the principle now contended for upon lands held on
lease in other parts of India, end consonantly It.
enormous Enancial Importance. Toe Gtveroments of
Lord Laurence and Lord Mayo agree] with him that
good faith would not be violated uy imposing local rates upon
these paeties. The same argument@ were mei against the
Income Tax, yet the right to impose tom. on land ft Bengal
for local and educational purposes were even tarronger than
the right to tax the land for the genEral purvses of the
Empire. At the same time, he had warned the Indian
Government agaltat proceedit g too hastily In Mins direction.
Lord Salisbury concurred In the opinion that there was no
breach of faith In the Impost:lon of this tax, hut approved
the Duke's determination to proceed with caution and
moderation.

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After a short convereation on Lord Lyveden's proposal
that the petition should be printed, the discuesion ter-
minated.

The Duke of Richmond. In asking when the ArMY BMWs
lion 8111 was likely to c me a , said h.• rhd hot complain of
the time it had heen before we other House, rut thought it
inconvenient that the Governmeekt have driayed 111
progress by interposing the Ballot BilL
Lord Granville said that an arrangement had been made in
the other House to take Me tint.° reading on Monday, and
the bill mould cline up immediately afterwards.
Their lordshipe then adjourned.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Meeley give notice that on
that day month he would tory., that It Is expedient that the
system of independent audit bhnuld be extended to the
grants made for the military and naval service..
Mr Fawcett stated that on that day week he would move
for leave to bring le • bill to abolish religious testa in Trinity
Dublin, and the Uriveralty of Dahlia.
Mr. Cowper-Temple stated that on the 25th July he would
move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Act of Uni-
formity.

Mr licutinck aciccd the First Lord of the Admiralty
whether any decision hod hero c roe to 89 to charging in-
come tax to rfli..en of ,be [mayor) moneys ,speeded by them
when on elan for tray-Ming and other expenses and after-
wards refunded to them
Mr. Gos..hen said that the question would come within
the lame category se ollowances on Income-tax in the
Civil Service, which had not yet been settled.
51. Bruce, reusing to Mr. C. S. Reed, said that a MI
would shr rtly be Introduced into the Upper Hone to amend
the Pedln'a Act of last canton.
The 111" use having gone lot, committee of supply on the
CIO Service Estimates, the mined discussion on the vote
of £23,078 r the building of the flumes of Parliament WU
alter a rather long debate, agreed to.
The following votes were alto agreed to, viz : - .tOO VO to
ine,ete the intro required for the new home aid c '1 pint
offices ; nli 073 sheriffs' conrt hntices, Scotland; £20.500 for
enlargement Of the National Gallery; £15,600 for Glasvw
Ur leerstty 0.000 for the lodustrial Si ,Inuni. Elinburgh ;
a; 500 fr .on he completion of other
er-vioncly voted £17.3,995 for the Post Bib 78 and
.1 Kneup ; undinee ; 9,0 for the British Museum
betiding*, mid £36,450 for 00 0117 c..,
09 the ',I; of 3:42,547 for smuce i.t.t ell buildings,
Mr W. H Smith expressed hie regret that the valuable
collections were at South Kaiwingtoo, where it waa almost
Imo ,ssibits for the ...Wm; p-,Pelalsnn t.i lamd,n to see
them. ' -

31r &later-booth hoped that m bettf r arrsaigeweet end
clustecetfen of the objeve «thiblud enofd be Meted, led
tlut the Increase of the coll,ctfons would be checked.
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Mr. If Osborne grongly protested against theincreasing
ttnendltnre on behalf of the South Kensington Establish-
ment.

The vote was then agreed to, as was alto the vote of
L for Surreys of •ho United Kingdom.
tin the v tO he the Harbours of Ite.ove, the
lion wax If r.,C • o the expenditure 00 Dyer. 11013'1110d, and
Aldernei ; and Kr. Bantixcit, seconded hy Sir 3. itiphin-
it":-.• .LOveti the ocomaien ct the 521,t00 whi4h A is

Iproposed to spend this )ear on Alderney. Sir. Baxter
demurred on behalf of the Treasury, though not ap-
proving of the Works there, and Mated that the G.
vertoneut were awaiting a report from Mr. liswkshaw to
consider whether they ehould he absndoned altogether. In
the meantime, this vote w 513 needed to keep up the necessary
cep:tire. Very general objection wan taken even to this
limited and temnorary expenditure, and ultimately the Item
was struck cut, Mr ii mverie alone dissenting.
Several vote, were also taken In the Class relating to Soper-
animation Allowances.
Mr. Pim mere] fnr a Select C. mmlttee to consider the
Present .)stem of P/ Piste Cal His illustrstions
of the elections to the sisletn, at.d his arguments In
fatour of R change were drown chiefly fr. ni it. working le
regard to Ireland. and he dwelt principally an the cost of
Mil ging over witnenea, and the uncertain character of the
decisions, In c naetplenC4l of the chiding nature of the tri-
bunal. The remedy to Which he gave his preference was a
; local enquiry.
I After remarks on the motion I y Mr. D els," Mr. Smjeaht
• Sherlock, and Mr. Whalley, the House a j Awned.

In the house of Commons, does 28, Mr. G. Gregory gave
notice that be would to.. arrow ask the President of the
Board of Trade whether his att mitt in has been called to the
Importation of spurious tea, and whether he has ascertained
that the existing law provides for the condemnatton of such
tea anb, if not, whether he is prepared to propose legislation
on the lull-mt.
0a the order of the day for going into committee on the
Reeletration of Ddeds, VS ilia, 60. (Middlesex) &IL
Mr. 0. Gregory said that he had on a former occa.lon
pinked that the bill was founded upon the unanimous
recommendation of a Commission which oval appoicted to
intrdire Mt° the talent of the transfer of land, and It was
calculated to remove the greet grievers°e of the Middlesex
Intim of Reglatratimi, and to do away with certain sinecure
appointments. The priociple of the bill was accepted by the
Attorney-General, who proposed that it should not he pro-
ceeded with dolt g the present session, on the nuderstusding
that the matter should be legislated upon by the Government
In the next session. If the right hon, gentleman should be
un.ble to take up the matter in the next session, he (Nir.
(liegory) should be prepared to press forward the hill now
before the House. Ile withdrew the bill with extreme regret,
because ha believed it would he a step towards reforming the
law of transfer of land. Ile considered that It was aco
lion upon the G.iverurnent that they had not given the other
branch of the legislature an opportunity for considering the
insprommeut of the system of transfer of land and the law of
real property during the present session, but wider the cir-
cumstances of the one he was compelled to move that the
Order be discharged.
Mr. Leeman said that the eutlect was one requiring great
conditeration, and there WAS no probability If a bill hod been
introduced by the Government that it c.,uld have become
law during the present session.
Alter remarks from Mr. Cubitt the order was discharged,
raid the hill withdrawn.
Slr IL Selwiti.lbbeteon resumed the adjourned debate on
the amendment on the second reading of the Railway Com-
panies Bit. The effect of ceiling public atteuflou to the nub-
het had been showu in the increased adoption by railway
companies of the block /system, and the a> stem of lister-
blocking signals and points, and the President of the Woad
of Trade had fulfilled the pledge given by him to introduce
a bill, although perhaps that bill did ro: go so far as might
be desired. lie therefore moved that the order no dis-
charged.
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Mr. A. Peel said that the Government had also under con-
sideration a measure respecting compensations which
would effect the relations between employer said employed,
and would do away with many actions ad ligment• el the
law which now prevented responsibility attaching to the
right peril, ad also prevented the person who had been in-
jured from adateing the compen.ation which be ought to
have. ile tamable's:l that the thanks of the 'louse were due
to the bon baronet tor the discussion which had Lea caused
by the bill.
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Mr Leman raid that the railway compsol
squirms to pat the bleak and inter-locales systems into
spheral OpPWI,II. and that they were content that the bill
introduced by the G .vernment should Income law.
The order was then discharged, and the bill withdrawn.
The order for the second reading of the Patents for In-
ventions Bill was discharged, mot the bill withdrawn.
Mr. West moved the second reading of the Paritin Churches
Bill, be °lett of which, he explained, was to prevent
Wallops in future from grauth g facilities for p-ms In p. nab
churches beteg appropriated, and to give churchwardens the
right to control the arrangement of seat. for tne benefit of
the whole body of parishioners. He thought it would be for
the Interest of the Church of Eastland herself that such a
measure should be passed, for It would he the means of
bring, i.g to the Church many Nonconformists.
Sir Percy Herbert supported the bill, and adverted to the
Injurious effects of piecing unappropriated seats in the most
inconvenient parts of the church.
Mr. Cawley moved as an amendment that the bill be read
a soc od time that day six m auths, which was moulded by
Mt 1) Dalrymple.
Eventually, Mr. West consented to withdraw the bill in
order that it might be reintroduce I next session.
lhe motion for the moored reading and the amendment
were then wishdrawn.

Of the International, Herr Bebel, a member Of the
Prussian Parliament, upon the condition cf women, are also
re.publlehed In the Palls mere as evidence cf the esteem
In which the sex Is held by Communist philosophers. Al to
women, with rare, very rare, exceptions, they can never
In any way contribute to the recoostittitlou of Society.
Slaves to prejudices of all kinds, afflicted by all sorts of
moral and physical hy 'torte, they will alwaye form a stum-
bling-block in the path of progress. A woman will teach her
children some kind of reactionary catechism, she will take
them to the ohurch or to man, and it my be impressible
by subsequent Inculcation of sound doetrines to uproot
early Implanted prejudices. An inferior being, woman will
never understand the grandeur and beauty of emsoclpatlon,
. the Marty which would ms Ice her a citoyen. she prefdra
:he slavery which will leave her still • woe Society must
make a vigorous effort to drag women from the beaten track
which they Kra content to tread. Wins her it sill be pace.
sary to employ ins tumid sense certainly, but perhspa also
physically, peremptory reasoohig 'calve, the slaves of the
old race, the staff of the advent of S ,cialhm."

of fluglishmen was that the course of Her Majesty's GO-
vernmeht ought to be that of a strict and honourable neu.
trality. I am not aware--beiee a member of that Govern-
ment, and belonging to the l'oreign Office, it Is possibly
presumptuous in me to say so —but even after the events,
Coming to very rapid succession as they did, with many
surprises, I am not ewers of tier Majesty's Government
having departed in one single iota from the strictueas and
from the honour of the neutrality which they believed the
nation desired them to matutatn. (Cheere) And yet at
times, as we read the memento of those marvellous event.,
and as we heard all eats of stories of military prOwees and
of military calamities, there grew up a cer(ain uneasy, iii-
definite feeling that We ought to be doing something, though
Wel did not know exactly what that particular thing Wu'.
Dignitaries of the Church wrote little tel 'for school children
,eaughter). sold not by tens or buivire.is. LA hy tees of
thousands, and which, however amusing they might be, ep-
ee teed to me to contain only one moral, aud that was that it
was disgraceful and humiLating tar this country to couduct
self industriously and peecef ally while any other two nations
were flebtleg, and while on., &saliva,* Must happen, was rot
so sue 'somata as the other (Cheers and leughter). I as b end
to say that In some of the speecees and wettings there reemeti
to hen feeling that war less in need Lech a deeireble thing
teat there was almost a want of ingeeulty and skill in H,
sleety's G..vernmeet In not msnaging to involve us in a War
•isughter and cheers ;which I believe In my conscience would
have been of no use to either one party or the other,
but which would infallibly have involved the whole
of Europe in that dreadlui calamity, and wcied have
prolonged and increased the miseries and snort-
floes of the two great friendly nations which were concerned.
(Cheers. f rej Ace to think that I believe all those feelings
have passed away ; but at the time I did sometimes feel
regret that some man of the independent position ard
weight of Richard Cobden (cheers was not alive to put before
the country in the manner which be knew so well how to do,
the common sense and the reasons of the matter. (Renewed
cheers.) After referring to Mr. Cobden, as a practical man,
and paying a tribute to his real in his efforts to bind nation
with nation. In the bonds of commerce, his lordship con
, tinned :—"There is a country, a very interesting and a very
great country —(cheere)--sep trated by an immense rep IMO of
water from us. It la one which Mr. Cobden was not
ignorant of, for he took in it the deepest interest,
and desired that it Might be warmly and nearly con-
-1 fleeted with this country In every possible way. (Hear )
I think It was not long before his death that Mr. Cobden
made a speech in the House of Commons stating—and ha
kept Ms word—that he would not say anything from the
American point of view, but would speak only in the sense
of our British Interests, when he urged upon this country
what he considered to be the true state of the case as to what
II was desirable they should do. I believe that speech had a
great effect—l know It had a very great effect upon the mind
of otos of the most dlitirullehed &Women of the time—both
In England and America—in gradually bringing both countries
to wish to remove ell causes of illtreece and offence which
might exiet. I believe It enabled Goverement after LI went-
Inset of this country progressively to advance in meseures of
a cooollietory nature In order to come to an understauding
with Amelia, and hes merle possible that which it has been
the singular good fortune of Lord Wpm— .:.I.werti)—and Mr.
Montague Bernard—(cheers) —both of whom are present, and
of their absent colleagues ti do—that which in my heart I
believe to have been a good and a great work. Ido
not only speak of their having put Into a fair train of
settlement questions of an Irritatiug character, which were
festering between the two countries, but I speak alien of
what they have done for the future, greatly, I believe, in
the interest of America, awl I believe still mere greatly in
the interest of this country, with regard to the settlement
. . .

"Its country, regard to _
of questions which might have slimy, ttd, above all, I think
they have done a good work In settiug an example of the
way in which dissensions which might be the commencement
of quarrels between great nations should be rattled (cheers);
that instead of each being absolute Judge of its own cause—a
thing, as Mr. Cobden said, which is unknown in private life
—they should endeavour as much as losable, first by peace-
able negotiation, and, secondly, by arbitration when possible
(hear, hear), to settle differences in a way which leaves
nothing bdAnd it but feelings of friendship peace and good

honourable to both countrlee, just and tali to both-a-like, and
it ts difficult to suppose, where those sentiments prevail
between two great and honourable nation., the all ulties
of any negotiations should be insuperable. It scan ely
belongs to mete say It, loot still it seems to me that the
Treaty to which we had the honour to append our names is
one which, as Mr M'Culloch described it, if fair and lust to
both parties. (liver, hear.) It le not a triumph fee either
side, still less is it • humiliation. 11 11 an equal contrast be-
tween two friendly people (Cueers . seems to me that
there Is in that Treaty the embodiment of a great priuc`ple,
ths adoption of which would have [men hailed wilt(
the utmost Wird action by the illustrious man whose
name this Club bears. (Cheers T 'lore 'i.e few thlnt • tint
would have given higher sathlaction to hi, Cobden than to
have found the two countries he so deeply loved, Ills own and
tea, of the lio.gllsh race on the other side of the Atlantic,
with their common history and their common interests corn- ,
bhing t 3 establish, for the first time In the history of the
world, that great principle for whioti he contended, that in
International questions, as mu h as in private dispnlet, men
are the b-st j attires of their own quarrels It Is. tt no, necauw
tots Trealy Mu embodied that principle that I, ler one, than
ever esteem It to have been a great happiness and a groat
honour that I was permitted to place my name to that do,-
men;. mast regard this Treaty sea Treaty between two
nations I have said tenty what I think was the share of my
noble friend your chairman respecting It; but neither in this
counrry nor yet in America can this Treaty fairly he called
the r misty of any party. It was supported on the other aide
of the Atlantic by the Press and by the politicans of both
the great parties in the lofted denies; and we had
the great advantage, and a signal advantage it was to us in
our negotiations, of haying by our tide, as our trusted and
most valued colleague, an eminent member of the great
Conservative party in England. (Cheers ) I trust that this
Treaty will never be regarded In a narrow or party view. I
trait it will be ever looked upon as the first step in the restora-
tion of those clam and intimate relations w. ich ought to exist
between this country and the United States—between that
witich Mr. M'Culloch has called the mother co .ntry, and that
which I may therefore venturr, without presumption, to de-
signate her Illustrious and islighty daughter on the other
side of the Atlantic. (Loud cheers.)
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Mr. T. B Potter, M. P., proposed 'The health cd the
Chairman."
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Lord Granville, In reaponcllng, repeated what Lord Cowley
had told him personally respecting Mr. Cobden's part in the
negt tuition of the Commerctal Treaty with France Lord
Cowley, who had not previously known Mr. C.hden, said that
his simple.mholedness, his honesty, his earnestness, pro-
duced a wonderful effect. Ms Lordship spoke of the reve-
rence with which Ur. Cobden was heard, and hla word so
eep ml, and said he believed that no other man could have
obtained the terms which Mr. Cobden did.
The proceedings then terminated.

A PILGRIMAGE TO COBDEN'S GRAVE.
While the memory of Mr. Cobden was being appro-
priately honoured on Saturday by the distinguished
aesernbly at Greenwich, • party of gentlemen who had
worked with him in his patriotic efforts to secure to
thie country the blemings of free trade, met at Mid-
hunt, in Sussex, and made a pilgrimage to his grave,
which lies a short distance from that village. So
modestand unassuming was the wholenature of the visit
that none of the inhabitants of Midhurst and its stir.
roundinge, or even the surviving members of Mr.
Cobden's family, who live in the vicinity, were aware
of it, and the proceedings throughout were of a very
simple character.
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The party numbered between 20 and 30 after being
joined by a few ladies, and there would have been a
larger meeting had not the annual banquet of the
Cobden Club been foxed, by a mere coincidence, for the
same day. The gentlemen present were members of
the Cobden Commemoration Club, and their custom
haa been for many years, and both before and after
the decease of Mr. Cobden, to meet normally to cele-
brate the eGouomie victories which, under his gni.' ance,
they and their fellow-workers were enabled to achieve.
Hitherto the commemorni ion has been held in London,
but this year it was docided to bold it in the village,
in the neighbourhood of which he wan born and now
lies buried.

The party was headed by Mr. Richard Parker, an
old member of one of the London branches of the
Anti-Corn Law League. Mr. Washington Lyon, and
Mr. Robert White, and it arrived at blidhurst between
one and two o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, pro-
ceedbig at once to the pretty churchyard of \ Vest ,
L .v.ngton, situate on the brow of a hill, and from I
which one of the most charming views of the surround-
ng country can be obtained.
The grave of the great free-trade champion is in a I
retired nook there, and it is covered with a massive
slab of polished granite lying a few inches above the
ground level, the name "Richard Cublen" in raised
let, era being all that is placed on its surface. Oa one ,
side is the date of his birth, " iird June, 1804," and
death, 2nd April, 1855," and on another is recorded
the f set that his only eon Richard, who died in 1856,
at the age of 15, is buried in the same tomb.
With this simplicity, Mr. Cobden lies interred, and
the visitors on Sa'urday, after reverently lingering
around the spot and plucking a few fl mem returned
to the village, passing on their way a handsome column
erected to his memory. Later in the day they assem-
bled at the "Angel "Hotel, in Midhurst. where Mr.
I Parker proposed as a toast " the immortal memory of
Richard Cobden." He remarked forcibly on the honesty,
energy, truthfulnese, and common sense which bad cha-
racterized their deceased friend throughout his career,
and which could not fail to be impressed deeply on the
beasts of all those connected with hiss. 11e spoke of the
reception which more than 30 years ago the free trade as-
sociations of London gave to Mr. Cobden, with his col-
leagues, Mr. Bright, Mr. George Wilson, and Mr.
Villiers, on their first agitation in the metropolis, and
he referred with pleasure to the great revolts achieved
under the direction of those leaders. They, he said,
c..u!cl look back to a time when statesmen were not,
as now, enlightened and converted, and their only
hope should be that in their next great struggle of
whatever kind they might have so earnest and doble a
champion. The toast was drunk in solemn silence,
and the company shortly afterwards returned to
town.