The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

SOCIAL SCIINCI ASSOCUrION.

The annual dinner of the National Association
for the Protuutina of Social Scum. (with which the Satiety
fee :rumours,/ the Atueitilment of tue Law is now loom-
prated) took place on Saturday, at the Ship, at Orem-
wish ; Lord BROUUHAX, the president of Vie samoolatioa,
is the cheat.

The Titagar, in preemie( the toast of the miming,.
esti that Sx. F. Kelly hall during the pass year made rarities(
attempts to wend and improve our laws, of which efforts
his bill to prevent gross bribery and corruption at elections
was thermal importentand if that bill,or even • considerable
portico of it. bad been carried before the last general elec-
tion we should not have seen those disgusting outrages upon
all law aa upon all morals which that occasion prodnosd.
Another measure of importance was that for the establish
anent of a court of criminal appeal, and with the various
additions and modifications of which it was susceptible, he
wished that measure every success. Some important mea-
sure bad been introduced by the Lord Chancellor in the
House of Lords, and one of rum was of very great impor-
tance. he meant the County Court Ameuthueut Bill. If that
hall or anything like it had posed it would have shut up the
eounty courts altogether. The power of commitment was ab-
solutely essential to the existence of those =urge. There were,
however, some parts of the bill which he re*etted had not
pained ; for isetiume, the extension of equitable jurisdiction
to county courts, and the limitation of action on simple
cootract debts, though with regard to the Latter point, while
be considered six years • great deal too long, the proposal of
the bill to limit actions to one year was a great deal too
ikon. The noble lord concluded by giving, " Property to
lb. Low Amendment Society."
Mr. T. CHAMBEIN, in proposing " The health of the Fro-
thiest," remarked that Icedßrougham had succeeded in his
weer as • law reformer in showing that amendment of the
kw was es important to those who lived by it as to those
who lived ceder it, and the successive improvements that
the noble sod learned lord had introduced, always popular
with the publie, bad become popular with the probesicio.
Toe toast was received with enthusisatic cheers.
The CHAIRMAN said the assistance he had been able to
give to the cause of law reform was due to the fact that be
always looked upon oar jurisprudence as generally good,
and only endeavoured to effect moderate changes, select.
kg those park which were defective, and leaving the great
body untouched. No doubt many of the alterations be
bad been the means of effecting were at Bret strongly op-
not=only by members of the profession, but by the
themselves. Referrieg te what he described as the pre-
sent hateful state of things with regard to the Dano-Cerman
war, Lord Brougham observed that there was • too pre-
vailing feeling in society, particularly amongst the upper
and middle closes, that this country bad been humbled if
not disgraced by its refusal to act. It was very well
to say we felt for the Danes as oppressed
• their powerful neighbours, se we felt for the
Poke cruelly treated by their tyrannical government, but
that we ougut to have done still more ; that we ought not
to have cosfined ourselves to protesta and disapproval, re-
probation and lamentation, but should have acted when we
were clearly in the right and our adversaries clearly in the
wrong ; that we were humbled and mortified, if not dis-
graced, by having done nothing. His opinion was the re-
verse. We should have been humbled and disgraced if we
lad not expressed what all of us felt and had a right to
feel—we should hays bees diebonest if we had not felt, said
wrardly if we had not mewed, our horror of the conduct
ef those who oppressed the one nation, and still more of
these who oppressed and pillaged and plundered, under
the name of oonquest, the other. The German
powers thought to gain glory by the strong attacking
the weak, instead of which the real glory to be
Naked was, if the weak had attacked the strong, and
bed been able, as dnfortunately they had not, to ,beat them.
people of this country bad resolved that there should
lbe no war, and whatever certain classes might think or
bright arm., the people were right in their resolution.
They had no right, and certainly no duty, singly and un-
supported, to make war in favour of those ill-used, gross
and grievous as the ill- ing° night be, and cruel and M-
alting as those might be who ill-need them. It was a step
la social progress that, instead of having recourse to the
sword, we should have wolves to plain, honest, and manly
remonstrance, complaint, and reason, with the wrong-doer ;
that we should try the effect of moral induces upon them,
and upon the public as large, which were not parties cis
the one side or the other, and that having made time pro-
tests, gives that advice, and entered into those negotiations
der the right apnoea the wrong, we should stop
shirt of actual force, and not throw our power
away upon any impossible expedition for the sake of
sesenging the injuries of others. He was far from saying
last any menace or threat, either direct or what might be
Mastrued into a threat, ought ever to be used on such as
measioe. He hoped sone bad been used. If any had bees
Used it had been a very great error. He believed with Mr.
kill, one of their members, that if we could not be chival-
rous we were at any rate bound to be honest. It was
toasty to protest, and the goverment and the country
would have been diagramed and dishonoured, therefore
bumbled, as the phrase of the day was, if that had not been
done, if we had not given our advice, though pretty sure to be
fawindented )against the wroog doer and in behalf of the injured.
Other toasts followed, amongst which were, "The Leib-
later.," proposed by kr. !['Queen, and acknowledged by
Cargill, IL P., and "The Natiosal Association for the
Promotion of Social Science," given hy Mr. J. Heywood,
sad responded to by Yr. G. W. Hastings

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF OOMMON&-JOLT L
TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.

PAIII.

. POI THIRD IMAMS. —MIMI,/ THIRD 11AD1110.
' Mr. St. Minya Mr. Merritt
. Mr. Butler Jamaica' Sir W. Fraser
, Mr. Mainland Hon. Captain Clive
1411. Y. Davie Mr. Paull
• Mr. Codes Mr. Cnblit
- Mr. J. B. Smith Calomel Cartmignt
Mr. Turner (Kenebester) Mr. Dawson
Mr. Evans Mame Hamilton
it. Mr A. Avian Mr. W. Lim
Mr. Barnes Mr. E. u
Mr. Adair
Mr. Welby
Mr. Mobs Seymour Mr. Henley
MMr.r. Tile Gore Langton lirlatol;
How Sir A. A. Hood
yndham
Colonel Pack* Mr. Tel
Warrson
Mr. Lysley Captain Gray
. - Mr M. Pato Mr. Kennard
Mr. S. Gurney Sir 1. Pakington
• Mr. Jackmm Mr. Ferrand
Lard buokelUo Cal Anneslay
Mr. Otrueide Cal. Bathurst
Mr ?ortolan Captain Lowther
Ids. Lowe Mr. Cornwall Lep
Lord Proby Mr. Hubbard
Mr. Miller Lord Dalketth
Mr. fashaus Mr. Parke
Mr J. ogilvy Mr. Alderman Rosa
Lord A. Churchill hr. Brooks
Mr. W. Kiel/lake Mr. Montagu Smith
Mr. Corbally Col. Wilson Patieu
Mr. Norrid Hon. CoL Bernard
Iced Athlumney Sir W. Verner
Lord J. Browne Colonel P. V. Ullanse
Lard E. Broca Mr. Macaulay
Mr. Alcock Mr. kart
Lard Castleman, Mr. Mentos
Mr. Iterual Osborne lord George Manners
Mr. W Valliant& Mr. Lyall
Mr. Denman Mr. Mitterd
Mr. Herbert Mr. B Cochrane
Mr. F. 'sort!. Lord Henniker
hr. P Unionsrt Colonel Lowther
Mr. Gregory Egerton
Hon. U. Berkeley Lord Lovable
Mr. ilmbory Mr. BOVIII
Mr. Vet loot, Mr. A. Mills
Mr J. Trelayny Mr. Mccormick
• Sir J. J.,hiatone Lard Galway
Mr. Lindsay Col. North
• Alderman salmons Mr. Beach
Mr. Maikiunce Lord MmHg=
Mr. lieaumoot Mr. Balk
lion. P. bouserie Sir E. B. Lytton
Mr. Marsh Mr. J. Tollemache
• Mr E. C..lehrooke Mr. Hallburtovi
Major Garin Cot. Oilpro
Str J Duke Mr. Disraeli
Mr. barley Col. :naafi Bearded)
Mr. Kienroare Cot Barttelot
Mr. I iresfell sir M. S. Stewart
Mr. 4.. Berkeley How. H. G. LiddelL
Mr. Al..wk Col. Stronie
lir. Davey Mr. Shirley
Mr. Mara ills Col. Maxwell
Sir W. 'ott Mr. J. Hardy
Mr II Major Srr
Mr. linreilherMan Mr. Gerard Strut
Mr. 1111.1aTt Mr. Bowes
Air. 50 aldron Sir H. Locke
Mr J. Matheson Mr. Hope Johnstone
Mr. Train Major cummind Brace
Mr. Marshall Admiral buncombe
Lord F. Fitzroy Mr. ii ray
Mr. Mc nali.da Mr. O'Neill
Mr flutter Mr. T. T. Bernard
1901Writl Mickley Lord W. Graham
Major O'Reilly Mr. Bentiock
Vulvae! French Lord K. Montagu
11r. A ugustnaSinith Mr. Bond
Mr. '. M rathead General Forester
Mr. J. Brown Mallon) Mr. Greenwood

MR. LEATH•M, M. P. , AND NIA CONSTITCEN2B.
Mr. Leatbate, M.P., on Friday eight addressed • large
acting of him coestitueets, is the l'hilesiolibicel•ludl, Hud-
dersfield. The Danish queatioe was the only political topic
to which the boa. gentleman referred, and be eareenly dos-
flooded the course pursued by her Majesty's f0•011101011i
with iezattl to it. le reference to the question of mare or
war, he nut :—" Is en humble judgment the minister who
wail. a Europese war for anything short of imperial
eacessity, the inviolable faith of treaties, or the inexorable
interest* of the empire, wages war sot so much
swot, the sonnies of his couotry as upon our wealth,
our irolustry, our prosperity, and most emphatically.
upon the poor. (Hear, and applause.) If this be my belief,
end these be my remove I have to allege for entertaining
that belief, you ascot have much doubt about the veto I
man logics sent week." (Cheers.)Speaking of the threatened
oppositioe to his reelection es the representative of Had-
donfield, he declared that be should without fear meet any
apparent that might be disposed to measure his strength
saint him. The aims topic formed the chief point in the
speeches of others who addressed the meeting. No doubt
wee eutertaited by arm of the speakers so to the issue of a
seetest, if one should be hazarded, and the meeting
with great scelanistion a vote of rioutiosed ooefidnice =t
Mr.
Latham.