The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AT WREXHAM.
—At the opening of the Wrexham, Nold. and Connalen
Quay Railway on Wednesday, in reply to an address
from tho Mayor, Aldermen, and burgesses of the
borough, Mr. Gladstone made the following reply :
" lie was impressed with a knowledge that the compli-
ments contained in the address, as applied to himself,
were far beyond what the most strong ,belief in his own
deserts could encourage him to claim, but he had ex-
perienced in his own person this fact, that there was a
general conviction that those who advised the Crown
and those who were concerned with the legislative
business of the nation, although with much weakness
and many shortcomings, yet upon the hole, now for
a considerable period of years past bad been labouring,
as far as man's energy would permit, to develop° the
resources of the country. They had been pleased
in their address to allude to the changes
which had taken place in the commercial legis-
lation of the country, and to the part which he (Mr.
Gladstone) had had in promoting those changes—a
small one Compared with that which belonged to others.
He claimed credit for nothing more than he had
ever since his mind was directed to the subject,
upon assuming the office of Vies President of the Board
of Trade, now 21 years ago, under the administra-
tion of the late Sir R. Peel, steadily laboured in
the promotion of a cause of which they had seen broad-
cast over the land the blessed traits in the improved
condition of the people, in the greater energy of our
commercial enterprises, in the increased union of all
classes among themselves, a more devoted respect for
the laws, and in their more enthusiastic attachment to
the Crown (loud cheers). It was indeed needless,
almost idle to say that it was • real satisfaction not
for himself alone, but for all of them, who had in
their several spheres boon engaged in this work, that it
pleased the Almighty to bless and prosper it, and that
this dear old country of ours, though it might present
many things which we might all desire to improve, and
though in some parts its population were sadly and
cruelly suffering, yet had maie real advances; the stun
of human misery had decreased, and the sum of human
happiness had advanced amongst us, and we were
going forward on a path in which the results were
likely to be still more extensively accomplished (loud
cheers.)
'flier° has been another Conservative gathering in
Essex. Colchester was the place of meeting, and the
annual dinner of the Conservative Association the occa-
sion. Mr. Miller, M.P., Major Beresford, M.P., Mr. Da
Cane, M. P.,Mr. Peacooke, M. P., and Captain Jervis, AL P.,
all made speeches.:With respect to America the speakers
displayed sympathy with the South, but with the
exception of Mr. Peacocke did not urge a recognition
of the Confederacy. That hon. gentleman, however,
pressed its necessity, and declared that he had it on the
best authority that there was nothing the Southern
St tea desired so much as recognition. He also stated ,
that the Emperor of the French had informed Mr. '
Slidell of his wish to acknowledge the Confederate
States, but he was unwilling to act without England.
Mr. Du Cane made a thoroughly political speech, lie
claimed Lord Palmerston as the Tory head of a Radical
Cabinet, and recalling the fable of Penelope weaving
her embroidery by day and taking it to pieces by night,
said Lord Palmerston's Administration was the Pene-
lope of the day, and Lord Palmerston the Penelope
of the eight. Whereat Mr. Du Cane's audienee laughed.
RUMOURED RETIREMENT OF TIIE LORD ADVOCATE
FROM THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINDURGIL—It is
reported, on apparently good authority, that the
friends of the Lord Advocate have persuaded him to
accept of the vacancy on the bench ; and that the new
Lord Advocate is to be Mr. Edward Maitland, now
Solicitor-General, who acquired a good deal of notoriety
in this city as the getter up of the abortive declaration
in favour of the Lord Advocate's inquitous Annuity
Tax BilL If report speaks truly this warm admirer
of the Annuity Tax Bill is now to solicit the suffrages
of the electors as member for the city in Parliament.