The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

MR. BRIGHT'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH.

CoNSTITCENcIES RETrRNING MORE
THAN .ONE MEMBER IN WHICH
ALL THE NEAT s ARE NOT CON-
TENTED—
England .. 129 138 ES
Scotland.. 3 3 1
Ireland ... 25 24 23

A special correspondent of the Birmingham Poet, writing
from Edinburgh, says
Mr. Bright is the most popular statesman of the
hour in our Modem Athens. His praise is heard in
every circle. The Conservatives admire his modera-
tion. The people rejoice over his renewed physical
vigour, the prestige of his political success, and his
unswerving faithfulness and consistency. His por-
traits are prominent in the shop windows. The news- 658 ry.:,
papers containing the reports of his speeches sell by In these last constituencies, with more than one
tens of thousands. The anxiety to hear and to cheer member where all the seats are not contested, there
him, by hand and voice, in his great work was =mi. are practically unopposed --
fasted by what is admitted to be "the largest and most Liberal Seats. Conservative seats.
successful," as it was probably also the most enthu- 47 18
siastic meeting ever held in Edinburgh. Mr. Bright
frankly told his fellow-citizens that he came to the ,
Scottish metropolis with almost indescribable reluct-
ance, and with a burden upon him that he rarely felt ,
—for he had so much to do elsewhere—yet he ac- !
knowledged he had been amply repaid for all the incon-
venience he had been put to. To be the object of so
much sympathy and enthusiasm must be meat and
drink to the orator and statesman. When, at the
great evening meeting, one of the Edinburgh speakers
made a graceful allusion to Mr. Bright's hair,
prematurely silvered in the people's service, the cheers
of the audience seemed to indicate that his white
hair hail a comeliness and beauty of its own, as
honourable in its way as the ancient laurel crown,
and suggestive of the ripened wisdom of the seer and
the sage Mr. Bright's reception, it must be un-
derstood, was entirely friendly and cordial. No sign or
sound of dissent WWI manifested from beginning to end,
but the audience was too critical, and perhaps too re-
fined, to be enthusiastic. Mr. Bright was on his
yindi2ation arid defence, and his cautious Scotch jury
left the hall to think the matter over, just as a jury
retires to a room for deliberation. Everyone ad-
mitted the moderation and ability of the speech, and
one or two sagacious politicians inferred from the pro-
minent allusion by Mr. Bright to India that he will be
offered the Indian portfolio by Mr. Glulstone and
may possibly be induced to take it. There is something
decidedly piquant in the notion of Lord Mayo's de-
spatches being brought to Mr. Bright, as the Secretary
of State for India, for criticism and correction. 'rhe
new Governor-General of India would soon be made to
feel that no Toryism in India will be permitted with
Mr. Bright at the India Office.

England
Scotland
Ireland

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The Liberal majority will probably therefore he
UNC,NT&STEI, SEATS—
Libertl 122
Conservative

Majority . . .
CONTESTED BY CANDIDATES OF SAME PARTY—
Liberal . . . • • • •
Conservative

SECuND AND THIRD SEATS—
Liberal . .
Conservative

ToTAL LIBERAL MAJORITY

LORD MAYOR'S DAY IN LONDON.
Lord Mayor's Day falling this year ,r 1 a Monday,
and the weather being tolerably tine for November,
attracted a greater crowd to the streets than probably
ever had been witnessed before on a similar occasion.
Perhaps one of the most striking features on a
crowded Lord Mayor's day is the appearance of the
multitude who come to see and not to be seen. As
the procession passes along they close in behind the
last carriage, and present a waving sea of caps,
bonnets, greasy caps, "billy-cock" hats, and bore
heads, all knocking abcut and against each other, like
the womlen balls in an American washing machine, and
seeming to be put in motion by some violent action of the
works underneath. Women with babies in their arms
may be seen floating helplessly along, roughs snatch
at bonnets and earrings, pugnacious pairs atteo pt
to
settle their ditferencesM-et-arstis, and the whole street
seems to be on the verge of revolution. But it all
passes on and away. New crowds come, enact the
same pantomime, and disappear. The civic procession
of this year was a grand success, and the countless
thousands who witnessed it testified to the fact in
shouts of approbation. It seemed as if there was
quite a reaction in the popular mind from the despair
and indignation of last year's Lord Mayor's day, and
that the crowd were delighted to see their old gilt
coach, and their tottering banner-men, and their sword
bearer, and theirbeadles, and all the rest of their time-
honoured City pageantry restored once more to their
pristine magnificence.
On arriving at Westminister the Lord Mayor was
presexted to the Court of Exchequer by the Common
Sergeant, and after an interchange of the usual
ompliments the judges of the respective courts were
,nvited to the civic banquet in the evening.
The speeches at the banquet in the evening were in-
vested with more than the usual interest. First came
an announcement from Mr. Reverdy Johnson to
the effect that all causes of disquietude between
Great Britain and the United States hoc, now
entirely ceased, and that this announcement
would be made in a more official and formal

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