The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BEHLUT, Oci. 12.

Upon his return to Berlin, the King of Prussia
will meet the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA at
Darmstadt.

The Emperor of Russia will visit Berlin on his
return to St. Petersburg, at the commencement of
November.

The treaties by which Bavaria, Wurtemberg,
Hesse Darmstadt, and Nassau join the re-consti-
tuted Zollwerein have been signed to-day.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
LUBECK. Ocr. 12.

The royal yacht Osborne, with the Prince and
Princess of Wales, together with the infant prince,
have arrived at Travemu ode.

Their Royal Highnesses will proceed to (Thick-
stadt by special train at 11 am.

Drawn roes 1865.—Mean. De Ls Rue and Co.
have began to Woo their Pocket and Desk Diaries, lied
Litton and Card Dee* Weeders, and other animal publica-
tions for the year 1865. The Dew editions are marked b
the same exterior elegance, combined with practical utility,
which hare for so many pars maintained the superiority of
these dissiea.

WORKING ML44B Ex RIBITION AT BIII,IIRIGHAN.
At a public meeting held et Birmingham, on Tuesday etern-
ise ; the Mayor in the etsur. It wee determined to organise
as ezlitetion to be called " The World" Kea Industrial
Y.:hubbies foe Birmingham end the Distract."

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
AT FARNWORTH AND LIVERPOOL.

OPENING OF THZ PEOPLE'S PARK, FARNWOBTH.

FARNWORTH, Wimmtrier.
The inauguration of the public park at Full-
worth and the visit of the Chases/lot of the Exchequer
have to-day produced much bustle and excitement, not cooly
in Farnworth, but in Bolton and • number of other places
within • circuit of several miles. The day was observed es
• holiday, most of the shops being closed, and the inhabi-
tants turning out to witness the proceedings at Farnworth.
The roads leading thither were thronged with vehicles and
pedestrians from an early hour in the mornieg, and the
little town itself —for it hes of late yeses become
much more important both io population and industry
than an ordiaary village—displayed • very gay sad ani-
mated upset ; flags and streamers flaunted from all the
houses it the chief thoroughfare (which was also spanned
by • couple of triumphal arches), and the mills and other
buildings were also similarly decorated. The perk is the gift
of Mr. Barnes, nee of the members for Bolton, end is Sitlit•
seed • couple of miles from that borough. It is between 11
and 12 acres in extent, and is said to be worth about
3,0001. It has been open for the use of the public for some
three years past, bat her never been formally inaugurated
la mongoosee of some difficulties as to the proper local
authorities to whom it should be transferred. This ques-
tion, however, her been satisfactorily settled by the accept-
ance of the ground by the local board on behalf of the com-
munity of Farnworth. In honour of the day,
the park, which is laid oat with winding walks,
shrub), and flower-beds, and boasts a small lake,
was profusely decorated with digs sad barmen, some of the
latter bearing such mottoes se ." The rich sad the poor meet
together, and the Lord is maker of them all" ; "Enjoyment
for the people," " Welcome Gladstone," he. A large plat-
form was erected for the accommodation of the chief actors
in the ceremony, and a numerous body of ladies. •
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had at the pre•
vials evening been the guest of Mr. Alfred Bros, Green-
beak, was this morning escorted to theFaraworth-park by
an almost interminable procession, beaded by • detechuteet
of Yeomanry, the 28th Rifie Volunteers, and composed of a
long string of carriages, containing the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Barnes, M.P., Sir J. Hay•Shuttleworth
(high sheriff of the county), the Feria Ellesmere, Mr. A.
Egerton, tf.P., Lieut.-Col. Gray, M.P., Mr. Bosley, M.P.,
Mr. Hibbert, M.P., the county and borough justices, the oar.
pontion of Bolton, and members of ether public bodies
in that town and elsewhere in the neighbourhood,
sad • number of friendly societies, grades, guilds,
Sunday schools, Ac., bearing the usual brilliant
insignia. The procession, which started from the local
board office in Farnworth about half-past ten, did not reach
the park till nearly two o'clock, having in the interval
perambulated almost every street in Fantworth. The
ceremony of the inauguration era commenced by the chil-
dren of the Sunday schools singing the " Old Hundredth."
The Bishop of Manchester was expected there to deliver a
prays, but he was unavoidably absent. Mr. Barnes, M.P.,
seat advanced to the front of the platform. and amidst
loud cheers formally bestowed the park on the township of
Farnworth for ell time coming. Mr. A. Barnes, chairman
of the local board of Faroworth, accepted the gammon gift
oa behalf of the community.
The CRANCiLLOR of the EICHIQCII4 who was received
with loud and continued cheering, proceeded to declare the
perk "ones and for ever opesed and dedicated to the public
good." He went on to speak of the general recognition in
these days that property has important duties to fulfil,
showing that the factory system had caused • thorough
examination into the relation of employer and labourer.
The masters of factories, who were first of all placed under
critical and jealous examination, had now become in daily
increasing Blatancies the standard bearers of enlightened im.
provement as regards their relations to their workmen. The
people of this country were now workers for the world at
Dna if of every two loaves of bread consumed is England
one is the product of foreign soil, it might be asserted that
for every two yards of cotton consumed throughout the globe
one yard was of British manufacture. The factory system
was therefore an hoomarable and distinguished portion of
the economical and social arrangements of the country.
The right hon. gentleman then spoke of various features of
this system ; the tenacity of domestic affection amongst the
people, and the spirit of order and discipline which prevails
in the factories. He concluded by showing that the
munificent endowment which Mr. Barnes had promoted to
Fareworth would contribute to the mental as well as
bodily health of the population.

BANQUET IN THE LIVERPOOL TOWN HALL
Llviaroor, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

To-night the Chancellor of the Exchequer waa
entertained by the Mayor (Mr. Mosley) at a banquet in the
Town-hall. The Marog presided, and among awes present,
in addition to the guest of the evening, were Sir J. Kay
Shuttleworth, Mr. Horde M.P., Mr. Fender, M.P., Mr.
Barley, M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr.
Robertroa Gladstone, and the Elite of the commercial aris-
tocracy of the city.
After the usual loyal aad patriotic Meets, and the toast
to Mr. Gladstone, proposed by the Mayor,
The CILL.NCILLOit of the EICHZQUIR said—Mr. Mayor and
Gentlemen—No man could be greeted with the welcome I
have secured amoopt you and fail to experts's* sentiments
of the deepest and liveliest gratification. To that gratifies-
tioa be mud add, if he have any feeling at all, the liveliest
gratitude to you, from whom he has received that wel-
come ; bat permit me also to say that in the warmth of your
feeling, the warmth of those sentiments which you and
other speeken this evening have so generously expressed,
there is matter which must also cause the person standing
in my position some emotion, and I will eves venture to say
compunction and shame, for I cannot but be painfully
aware that you have greatly overrated those awakes which
it may have been my good fortune to have rendered the
country, or any hope that may be entertained in connexion
with such services to be rendered at • future time. It is
but little, sir, that bee fallen to myself to perform in
comparison with what has been and may be done by
others. I cannot indeed peas over the allusion you here
made to Liverpool as my satire place. Ignoble must bathe
mind of any men who can visit without emotion the home
of his childhood ; but is my case it would be something
more than ignoble. It would also in the highest degree and
in the greatest sense be irrational if I were to forget the
gigantic program that this town has made since the time
when I was more familiar with ite streets and itaiahabitaate,
if I had forgotten that it had placed itself in a position at
least to challenge—perhaps which may challenge conclu-
sively the place of the first oommercial emporium of the world.
Liverpool has risen to a position in which all those who can
call themselves her sone may be glad indeed to claim kin-
dred with her. But in claiming that kindred they must not
wilfully or unconsciously permit an exaggerated estimate to
be made of that merit. I speak the language of the utmost
sincerity when I say that in my opinion, after an experience
that has now become • long one, the one standing pain to
the political man in England—the one serious drawback to
the satidaction of his public life—is not the fear of criti-
cism, by which on every side he is surrounded, and which I
hold to be 4 as of the greatest and most essential advantages
he enjoys—it is not the labour even, the exciting labour,
he is called upon to perform, but it is a sense of the
negnality of his beet exertions to the arduous duty of go-
vernment and of legislation. There is no affectation in that
language, it is jostified by an appeal to the plainest facts,
for I apprehend it to be beyond the possibility of dispute
that this great and remarkable country has undertaken re-
'possibilities of empire such as never before lay on the
shoulders or upon the minds of men. What =tics in any
part of the world has had relations such as we have had in
every corner of the globe? What nation has had its fee-
tortes, its intonate, its ships, its commerce in every part of
the habitable world? What nation has governed as
we govern distant millions, many times out-sum-
boring ourselves? What nation has claimed, as
we claim, to bear the sway in the name of
Queen Victoria deo large a proportion of the surface of the
earth? What nation has made itself reepoasible, as we have
made owning responsible for the welfare of forty or forty-
five separate States in every portion of the world, which we
know by the name of our colonies, and what nation his at
the same time bad the can of all those direct interests and
relations, been charged with the seine responsibility in the

amnia of it. mend Wawa avoid, in the example it is
celled upon to set, in the sympathy it must feel with the
mum of right and justice. and constitutional freedom where-
ever that muse is at issue throughout any portion of the
world ? I am not one of those who could look forward with
satisfaction to the waning, of the splendour of the see of
Eogiriod's prosperity. I hope, on the contrary, it
may ever continue, and that the honour of the
country may continually grow; but at the same time Ido
teat scruple to say that I do witness with the utmost gratin-
faction the gradual growth of opinion and sentiment on the
part of the people of England, whose sentiments in the long
run govern the course of policy of the government—the
growth of the tone and temper which recognises those great
fasts of our enorrnoes, nay even oar over-eitended
respoasibilities. It is not very lose slice, not in this country
alone, but in every country of the vibrant world there Pre- I
veiled what I may call a lust of territorial aggrandisement.
and a notion had gone abroad, connected no doubt in great
jr,rt with false economical theorienthat the happiness and the
greatness of a people are to be continually augmented by ob-
taining constant accession to their internist teryilonal sway.
I hope the time has come when the people of England have
thoroughly shaken themselves free from that delusion—wiles
they have arrived at a and mature conviction that a
nation may have too much territory, as well ea too little ;
even, however, if you have too much territory, you have
ceefaseted reeponsibillthe le regard to it of which you can-
not hescurably free yourself ; but you have at least reached
the point at which all lust of extended territory has been
sincerely and permamictlyforeeworn. (Hear, hear.) What
we have now to do ia, I think, to cultivate what Providence
has given us, but not to meek any addition to the sphere of
our labours, still further to overtax thine human powers
which are already clamed beyond their true faculty for
the satisfactory discharge 'of their responsibility. (Hear.)
I think we may trace in other ways. the pro-
pos of a true and just political philosophy—
the philosophy of practical politico—on the part of the peo-
ple of this country, and great change has taken place in the
mind of England within the lot three generations with
regard to the government of our colonies. A oentury ago,
the idea in which our colonial relations were based were
'renew and selfish ; in one rework iadeed,lthe administra-
tion of the old American provisoes wen conducted) upon a
system which might still afford some useful lessons ; but it
rested essentially on the idea that, as far as economical and
commercial matters were concerned, the interests of the
colonies were to be made subservient to thine of the mother
country; and that the channels of their trade and their in
exertioos were to be forced in a direction
different from that which nature might Fiat out,
in order to make them tributary to theagreat-
nem of the mother gland. We have fully and
entirely awakened from any such dream. We have gives
to the coloniestpractind freedom, I am not prepared to say

that we have not something to rectify on the other side of
the account. (Hear, bear.) We observes disposition on the
part of some colonies, ailing themselves our own, to set up
against the industry and productions of England the mis-
chiefs nod obstractions of an exploded protective system.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the government of these de-
pendencies in general there is not much to be done, slowly.
perhaps, and cautiously, but firmly and resolutely, we may
find it needful to rectify the distribution of burdens and
benefit. in order to pleas the people of England, not in the
position of ascendancy and superiority, which they
have in good faith surrendered, but in that po•
aition of justice and equality to which they
have en disputable claim. (Hear, bear.) Our duty
is to get rid as far as may be of interference with the affairs
of oar fellow-subjects abroad, to afford them the protection
and shelter of the power of this greet empire, but at the
same time cot to consent to be charged with the payment of
vast sums of money for the sake of performing duties which
belong to the colonists rather than to us—Cheer. bear)
—sad the performance of which in every cam is so inalien-
able part of the f sections of freedom. (Hear, bear.) There
cannot be a grosser mistake in politics than to suppose that
you can separate the benefits of freedom and its burdens.
Is it to be imagined that it would be a benefit to a nation
if some unknown and unseen benefactor were to undertake
the payment of its taxes? No, it is necessary, if you choose
to succeed to and claim the dignity of freedom, that you
should provide the means by which free institutions can be
maintained. (Hear, hear.) In this direction we are in one
sense moderating our verve. We are learning that we have
enough to do—more, perhaps, than we an probably aeoen-
plish —in confining ourselves to those immediate
duties with which Providence has charged us. These
duties are not slight. What revelations have
we had within the last thirty or forty years
with regard to the condition of Ragland itself, how many
sore places have been disclosed, how much has been im-
proved and reformed. But bow much also does the con-
viction remain behind, that there is still a great deal to be
dons. In regard to what is celled foreign policy, we wit-
ness something of a similar movement of public sentiment
to that in regard to the question of our foreign dominions.
It is impossible that to a country like England the affairs of
foreign cations can ever be indifferent. It is impossible
that England, in my opinion at least, ever should foreswear
the interest she must naturally feel in the cause of truth, of
justice, of order, and of good government ; but it is possible,
lily it is greatly desireble, that England should recognise the
immerse advantages which the Almighty has bestowed
upon us in the independence of oar insular position. The
first result of that independence is that with regard at least
to every European question, out of which most of the
disturbances of the pesos of the world arise, England,
and England aloes, is as a nation essentially and
preeminently impartial—(cheers)—but this polities of im-
partiality is a position at once of dignity and of power.
(Cheers.) Its a position in which happily you don't re-
quire to be always seeking by artificial means for the
creation of influence. II is a wellies in which an influence
will come to you of itself, because amidst the conflict of
the psesions and interests of others coefideees will be re.
posed in the judgment of a country known to be free from
the Influence of them pardons. (Cheers.) Therefore, Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, feeling, as I have said, on the *se
hand the consolation and the advantage that public mss in
England must derive from the strenuous support they receive
os all hands from their fellow citizens, and on the other for
the chastened humility with which they should regard a
function they must know to be beyond their strength, it is
with malefaction I anticipate a state of things growing and
consolidating itself in the public opinion of this country from
year to year, which tends to inspire the belief that we are
shaking off schemes, projects, and ideas that would draw us
forth beyond the sphere of our immediate duty, sod should
tend to involve us in motional embarrassments,

and that we are cossequently setting free our
hands and energies for the great works which do
still always remain to us in the administration of the British
empire and in studying the happiness of the people of
Englend. (Cheers.) Doubtless, there is still much to be
done. The instinct of preservation has always been the
most powerful in this country, and justly has it been the
most powerful of all our impulses, because we have had
that which was worth preserving ; but the instiact of pre.
serration is best promoted and upheld when dutifully
and honestly combined with the instinct of improvement
—(cheers)—and the laws and condition of this country after
all that has been done yet will offer a rich har►est to
the wise and judicious efforts of the statesmen of
future times, and with the hope that the rends of those
efforts will be in the future, as in the past, not the impair-
leg or diminution of the national inheritance, but the ren-
dering it larger and more secure for those who are to wine
after us, even as we are happy to see it has been increased in
valise and deepened in stability by the changes and refor
mations which during the last thirty years it has under-
gone. (Cheers.) Mr. Mayor and gsstlemeo, I must be.
fore sitting down ask leave to propose a toast; it is the health
of your respected chief magistrate. (Cheers.) I am much
mistakes unless the compaay I address is prepared to accept
that toast is a sense and spirit far beyond that of the mere
formal though honourable and sincere respect which every
company of Englishmen would give to the represeata-
tive of public. authority. As the representative of
public authority in the great eoramusity of Liver-
pool, you. sir, are entitled to whatever hossour
be paid you—(oheers)—end if I read aright, the
gigue that I and around me in this room and in tide town,
there is a disposition to go beyond that merely formal tri-
bute of respect, and to own that you have exercised autho-
rity is the spirit in which it ought to be exereimed.{sheen)
is the wise and judicious, the large and liberal spirit which

regards authority, not only as the means of 'corning the
erd doer, but likewise as the MOMS of aseouragement

of those that do well, thus binding and souseating in
hammy and concord all classes of the osonmonity. (Cheers)
I sow call on this distinguished company to drink the
health of the chief magistrate of Liverpool, who km filled
that chair not lem worthily than others have dose, and
thaw entitling himself to the madame of his fellow
countrymen. The toast was drunk with all the bosoms.

TbeitAToll returned Uvula in a brief speech, and pro-
posed the health of the House of Commons,
which was responded to by Mr. lionfalL The
other touts were, "The town and trade et
Liverpool, and "The Ladies," after which the company, bay-
ing partaken of to or coffee, separated at half-past eleven
o'clock. A party of vocalists wound up the proceedings by
some excellent songs and glees. This we believe was the
Int occasion on which the representatives of the London
or provincial press were admitted to the entertainments of
the Mayor of Liverpool. We must not therefore forget to ac-
knowledge
the liberal arrangements of Mr. Morley, the
Mayor; and the special courtesy of Mr. Brandon Mosley, the
Mayor's sou.

THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS.