The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

THE SHEFFIELD CUTLERS' FEAST.

..?%411EFFIELD, TeuzaDAY now.

The annual biloquet, known as the Cutlers'
Fel* took place in the Cutlers' Hall this wreaths. The
Harter Wier is Mr. Charles Athiasoe, sad airithipt those
who bothered him with their wasithey war the Mayor
(Mr. Thomas Jtheop), lwal K. Howard, Lord Dounea, the
Right Hon. Ja.. §kaert Wortley, Mr. Roebuck, M.P.,
and Sir F. Crowley.

This weal loyal and patriotic toasts having been proposed
by the Nur= Clrnia,
Ahlawnson Joan Hewn' proposed the " Health of the
Doke of Norfolk and the House of Howard."

Lord EDWARD HOWARD resposded, and spoke chiefly on
personal and local matters. He sympathised with the people
of Sheffield in the sufferings caused by the recent flood,
and then proceeded to congratulate the company on the
prosperity of trade and manufactures in the town. He also
trusted that the time would come when Sheffield would be
made the chief residence of the Duke of Norfolk. He
should sae his efforts to bring shout that result.

The heaths of his Orsoe the Doke of Rutland and his
Grass the Duke of Devonshire were proposed by Mr.
Henry Colley, and Mr. Thomas Dane proposed the health
Of Rut Fitzwilliam, and Mr. John Jobs= Smith that of
Lord Wharneliffs and the Hones of Wortley.
I Th. Hon. J. F. S. WOMIXT responded.
Mr. Minn, HARBISON proposed the health of the Right
Hon. Lord Denman.

Lord Dmiessr, in hie reply, spoke with some warmth
spinet the conduct of the government in the Dano-Gerniaa
question ; he gave his rename for voting against the
government on the occasion of the discussion on the
vote of immure, and defended the giving of proxies
by these who were not present, stating that the 0011701-
poodesos on the subject was so full, that persons who reed
it went as capable of giving their vote as were those who were
present at the !debate. His lordship quoted from speeches
male by Lord Wodehouss in 1813, and his own father in
1823, to show that the *June adopted by the government
in the DanaGernme affair was highly memorable. He con-
. . .

eluded by saying that if parliament did not meet early and
prevent the aggressions of Proisia, he did not know where
the matter would end. (His lordship was listened to with
marked impatience, and frequently interrupted by ironical
cheering.)
Is reply to " The health of the Borough Members,"
Mr. ROZBUCC, who was received with chairs, after ex
pressing his thanks for the manner in which the toast had
been received, said—Sir, in looking Lack along the long
vista of the years in which I have been a member of parlia-
ment, at, the end of it I see ilayeelf proposing myself to
be a member of parliament ; and sow, when I have grown
an old man, 1 wonder at my own temerity—l may say my
audacity—upon that 000mion ; for when I recollect whoa •
man has to consider who represent. England in the House
of Commons, I am startled and frightened at the result.
The House of Commons forms the greatest part, the moat
important portion of the government of England—(hear,
hear)—and that important portion influences not only the
interior government of the country to which we all belong,
but it goes far abroad ; wherever the name of England
is heard—and where is it not heard l'—(bear,•heru)—
the WILLOW, of the English Howe of Commons
prevails ; wherever men are working for liberty there the
English lions. of Commons is cited, and wherever they are
endeavouring to free themselves from the fetters which
commerce has imposed upon them, there the voice of the
English /louse of Commons is heard. The Home of Com-
mons influence mankind from beginning to end, and I say I
am startled with the temerity which guided ma upon that
occasion as • man who proposed himself as • representative
of the people of England ; for you will recollect that the
commerce of England pervadesevery portion of the universe.
and that wherever the commerce of England goal, there
ought to go—there does go—the prevailing power of the
people of England to protect her sons. Well, then, there
have arisen from time to time difficalties which have
been submitted to the House of Commons, and I, as •
member of the House of Commons, have had to decide
upon those great arid important question.. Wall, sir, Imy
I am now startled at the recollection of what I then under-
took. The commerce of England, as I have said, pervades
tb• whole world ; her name goes to the verge of civilisation
and beyond, and her lams—the laws that are propounded in
the Home of Commons—go with the name of England.
Well, sir, I ham been taught to bsliem—ourd I Wok 1 am
right in believing—that the business of • legislator is •
matter to be limped—that law making is a subject which
requires an apprentioiship. Why not? The lawyer gm*
through certain forms ; a member of the church of Eng-
land goes through certain forms ; bat it would seem
• legislator is what I have beard of the gig driver—it oomes
by instinct. (laughter.) Every man believes that he is
exactly in the position to make laws for the country to
which he beluga. Well, sir. I think very differently, when
I put before myself the point at which I aimed, that of
be.ng • representative of the people of England in the Huns
of Common. What I did was to consider everything
which I thought would conduce to make an efficient
member of the Home of Common.. There were

three thiap which I fount requisite as a nember
of that bows. Fint, appropriate knowledge; nett,
hearty ; and thirdly, courage ; and any our of them three
being absent I found would nullify the other two. I found
that you could bare perfect knowledge, that you could hare
a desire to do well ; but that if you had not courage to face
the difficulties the thing fell before you—{hear, hear)—and
you don't know, sir, the difficulties of a masher of the
House of Commons. Bat there is one present who will

toll you (alluding to Six F. Crossley) t►e 4liffteultias • MOM

bar of the Houseof Commons has to encounter. There is
cajolery of every sort. there is temptation of every de.
acription ; but the grand thing is that that man should
say to himself, "Now I am here representing
be people of England. for though I am returned
for the borough of Sheffield, still I am 11110 repro-
seating the people of England." (Applause.) Mind that
there is co misthke. Though I read in the papers that I
am ruistakee, still that is the fact—l am representing the
people of England ; and in this great capacity you don't
know the difficulties we have to go through. Why I will
only stets oae class of time difficulties. Do what I will,
sir, I feel very much like the drummer boy who said, "Hit
him where you will, you cannot please him."
(Laughter.) I feel, Mr, that oil what I like, there
are people determined to oppose it. I feel that there, air, an
bussing flies, not simply bred in dirt, but nurtured is dirt.
Their only °bleat is to be uncomfortable to Meanly people,
(Laughter.) Now that is really the thing we have got to
go through. Do what we ill—and lem only answering
the tout of "The Members for Sheffield"—do what we will
we cannot please everybody. Now I believe we have before
ne—arid I speak in the name of my consigns as well as in
the name of myself—difficulties as great es have ever fallen to
the lot of the representatives of the people of England. Great
indeed are now our difficulties. A tory of the old-fashioned
stamp you cannot find now ; we are all liberals, every man
of us. I want to know now, where is the man who is op-
posed to free trade! Where is the man who will say the
difficulties have happened which he predicted before the
reformed parliament I would admire any man who could
catch a real old-fashioued tory. I should advise him to put
him under a glass shade, and send him to a geological
society as an antiquated specimen. (Laughter.) Sir, these
are my views. Now, I have been representing the people of
England for some two sod thirty years I wish it were a
'honor time, air, for thee I should be a younger man,
bat the fact is so. But I will tell any maa who wishes to in.
prompt the people of England. that he had better prepare
himself for that snot work by learning the great busiumis
of rite; that the world is before him:sad:that the people of
Reeked influence the worlJ. Sir, I thank you. (Cheers.)
Sir Passe Osmium, in returning thanks for the
memben of the West Riding, said—Muter Cutler, my
lords, and gemilmeao, mail have been the invitations which
I have received from you ►nd the members of the corpora-
tism, bat this is the first time I have bad the pleuurs of
aceoptise the heepitality of the Abider Cutler. I am
glad of this opportunity, as one of the West Riding mem-
bers, of addressing the ocestituency of the southern and by
far the largest of the tidings of Yothehise. Parliament la
its wisdom his eerie fit to divide the repnesotation of York-
shire into two, and se Sheffield is one of the largest, I am
glad of this opportunity to say a word at parting. I mast
park • little polities, far I feel that Reiland has meddled
la the slain of other satiate, for 800,000,0001. is too large
• sea to espied, and there were the lives that were

[TWOPENCE •

sacrificed in entering into war. I think that this coun-
try acesd quite right in not istadenag with the
struggles at present going on in Europe and America. If I
refer to America, I think we must all look upon the
laidory of that country with beep cosersissration. I visited
both the Northern and the Southern Stites, and 1
with me my Northern opinions, and I was told that it
be as such as my life was worth so introduce the subject
slavery ; but when I got there and set down among then
they introduced it then:waives. They asked me to Lea them
what I thought of their domestic institutions as ocangared
with my own. They inked me if I did not think that the
slaves In their country were better off than the
in my country were—were they not better clothedl
end better cared for than the working people
in England. I said if the working men in England did not
work they were not paid, hut if they would wok they were
paid for their work. Ido say that slavery is the mule of
that country. (" No, no.") But good would come out of it
yet. I say slavery wan the beginning of this war ; slavery
is at the bottom et it. (" No, no.") Ido not 13201/ to ay
the North would conquer the South. I hope they will come
to see it right, that there should be no more American born
slaves, bat that slavery will be allowed to die out, and that
every American will be paid the value for his labour. (Bear,
hear, and applause.) I thank you, my lords and gentlemen,
on behalf of Br John Itameder and myself, for the honour
yon have done us in drinking our healths.
Several complimentary toasts followed, and the meeting
broke up.
SHAKESPEARE PENNY MEMORIAL.

The Working-man's Shakespeare Monument
Committee have called a meeting at the Whittingtoe Club,
and have issued the following address :
The British workmen who remedy planted the Shake-
speare Memorial Oak en Primrose-hill appeal to the public
generally, but more especially to the members of their own
order, to aid them in a work of national interest, viz., the
erectioo of a marble statue to commemorate the tercente-
nary
ound you of thew post. They make this appeal on the
gr that the Bahamas, the Northern States of
America, British
sCanada, Australia, sod Nova Scotia are all
actively mimed as reeing Shakespeare monuments in their
leading cities, the metropolis of England has yet to embody
the expression of de homage in a permaeent form. It
might have been well, perhaps, if the accomplishment of
thu task had remained in other bands ; at the same time,
the highest tribute that can be paid to genius is that which
springs spontaneously from the mass of the people. Let
the British workmen succeed in their undertaking, and they
will cover themselves with immortal honour, as
well as add a new chapter to English history.
It has been ascertained that an appropriate work of art ma
be procured for the sum of 1,2001., and en ornamental shrine
of iron and ear, to seams it, for about 1,20 W. more—is all
2,44:01. This is the minimum amount the committee pro-
pose to rains, chiefly by the pence of the people, supple-
mented by the silver and gold of those who have the will
and the means to lend more substantial aid. That all
classes may have an opportunity of subscribing, house to
house visitatiou by authenticated collector, will be set on
foot, and for every penny subscribed a separate Shakespeue
head given ; contributions higher in amount will be acknow-
ledged by memorial card receipts, designed by Oeorge Crnik.
shank and others. Contributions may also be paid•
to member' of the executive, or deposited in money boxes,
which will be placed fa various parts of the metropolis.
In order to same the public that they are subscribing to ••
reality, and not a thing of the future, the committee beg to
asnouoce, that arrangemente have bees made for proceed-
ing with a design for the statue, which, when ready, will be
submitted to a competent oommitteeof tuts. It is proposed
to lay the foundation stone of the statue on Primmes-hill, ea
the 2.lrd of April next. Designs for the shrine to enclose it
will be invited by public competition at the proper time.
Meanwhile, the free-will offerings of the poet's countrymea
and countrywomen have to be gathered in ; and not of his
countrymen and countrywomen alone it is to be belied, but
of all who speak the language of Shakespeare, and have ex-
perienced the humanising influence of his mighty genius,
co matter from what lend they oome, or to what nation
they owe allegiance. Be was the world's great teacher, and
mankind owe him a common reverence.—Committee-room,
St. John's-gate, ClerkenwelL

The foil:al4 committese—working end ornamental—
have charged themselves with the task of carrying out tha
dedis
HONOSAST Cooncri..—Preeidest, Samuel Phelps, Fag. ;
W. C. Mariveady, Esq. ; F. B. Chatterton,
Criewick, Esq. •
; Rainy Manioc, Esq. ; George Dawson,
Esq., M.A., F. 0.8. ; Bev. Arthur Marvell; Henry Vin-
cent. Esq. ; Wm. Phillips, Fag. ; George Cruikaheak, Eeci. ;
George Gavle, FAL& ; Grusieisen,
1F.1..8. ; J. Shia Frlswell, Esq. ; Henry Ottley, Eaq. ;
John A. Herand, Esq. ; John Holliogsbead. Sq. ; J.
Alfred Langford, Esq. ; Blaoehard Jerrold, Fag. ; J. E.
Carpenter, Faq. ; Wm. Sawyer, F.aq. ; Deeis
Esq. ; C. H. Els, Esq. ; P. Dossielly, Faci• ; JnelPh
Cowen, jun., Esq. ; 0. Liaisons Beaks, Esq.
Tailings& —P. A. Taylor, Esq., HL P., 19 Aldermanbury,
E.C. ; J. T. lila', Seq., 9fi, Piccadilly, W. ; Jones Levy,
Esq., Versilass-buildiage, Gray's-ins, .C.
IWILIIIB.—Bank al London, Charing-cross, and Thread.

EtaWriiii.—Richard Moore, chairman, 25, Hart-street,
Bloomsbury, W.C. ; Jobe Bainbridge, Hos. See., 6, Tot-
teatime-West, W. I Hoary Marston, G. Lianas= Bank;
representatives of hoeorary isouacil ; Alfred Shakespeare,
6, Nassanetrest, Middle's: Hospital, W. ; Thomas J.
Duetting. 6, Regnet-tiourt, Fleetatreet, E.C. ; T. 0. Pratt,
Ingestre-buildiags, Geldea-equare, W. • George Wheeler,
10. Bedford-street, Strand, W.C. ; William Kalthosber, 72,
Was-street, Orford-street, W. ; James Hoppey, 136,
Groat Calkers-street, N.W. • G. W. Odgers, 2, Park-lane,
Kensington-gore ;M. W. Beckett, 16, Little Rumall-street,
Bloomsbury, W.C.: William Farmer, 5, Crescent-street,
N. ; Thomas Wearing, 4, Ana-We* laliartee, N. ;
Frederick Lewis, 28, Hartland-road, N. W. . • William
Forcroft, 34. Little Suttoa.street, Clorkeowell, E.O ;
Thanes Winkwertk, Cherles-strest, Hattoar
Henry Thomas, Saeopearset,Eltraed, W.C. ; •
166, City-road, E.C. ; George Howell. 40, Quest'..
lane, Essen-road, N. ; W. R. Creaser, 31. Grist Titoldield-
street, W. ; E. Trlmlows. 240. &read, W.C.

RoraL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

Yesterday • meeting of this institution was held
at ite house, Johe•treet, Adelphi ; Osp• ain Sir Bowan
Peaactrr, Bart., V.P., in the chair. The minutes at
the previous meeting having been reed, ri wards amounting
to 621. were voted to the crews of lb. lfeboate of the in•
stitutioo stationed at Pecnbrey, Margate, New Betoie,
Cantor, sod Ark low, for going off to vessels in reply to dips&
of distress in stormy weather,but whoa, crew" had bees saved
by other means before the arrival it the lifeboats. It was
reported that the lifeboats had oe every eametom behavedvery
well. The silver medal of the institution and a eon of its
vote oe parchment were voted to ]lies Lo Geyt, amides&
of Beth, in acknowledgment of her noble and cesusgeons
conduct is rescuing two lade from drowning at
Lyme Re& co the 4th alt. Mile Le Geyt had been • Tillie
at Lyme Katie foe some few weeks, and oa the day in quen-
tion was out rowing in a small boat in company with a lady
hided. The two lads were out playing at the extremity at
the outer pier, and by some mesas unfortunately toil into
the sea. Upoo seeing the accident Mies Le Geyt imme-
diately rowed at much risk through the broken water to
their renew, and throwing an oar to one of the boys and
holding the other lad in bee arms until further seriatim*
came, she was fortunately the means of caving them
both from a watery grave. A reward of 2!. was also voted
to a boat's crew foe petting off and stein those out el lye
of the crew of a &him boat which had catniseel in a heavy
sea near Clogher Head, Loath Harbour. on the 11th June
last. Two men were unfortunately drowned on the oesseicie.
A reward was likewise granted to four men for putties off
in a shore boat, and rescuing, at considerable risk of life,
eight persons from a fishing boat which had struck on a
snakes rock daring stormy weather, off North Ito., Shet-
land, on the Nth May Lat. A Teemed of 3/. was also voted
to several fishermen ice saving six coast-guard men, whose
boat was capsized off Yerriten Cove, Dingle, on the most of
Kerry, en the sth July but. Various other rewards were
also granted to the crews of shore boats and others foe saving
life from different wrecks on the coasts of the United Kiev
don. Payments, amounting to 1,8001.. were made on various
lifeboat astabliehments, mid several lifeboat house@
were ordered to be built on various parts of
the west. The committee decided to station
a sew lifeboat at Cantor, near Great Yarmouth, sea to
appropriate the same to Birmingham, where the residents
had collected thecae, ainotuttieg to about 450/., of a life.
boat. Csietor is cos of the most importaat lifeboat stations
on the coast. The institution bad during the past mouth
lent new lifeboats to the Lead's Eod, Cardigan, and Porth-
dillaee. The Great Wester'. the Loudon and North
Wester", and the connecting railway companies bed, with
their usual liberality, readily given a free cooveYaarit to all
the lifeboats. The lifeboat presentee' to the ontitutioe by
the ancient order et Foreatere had, during the past woe,
been exhibited at the Crystal Palace, and bad excited gene-
ral attention and admiration. The boat sill remain there
until the seeming of tie sth inst. The cost of a second boat
was also being collected among the members of the
order. The Hone Guards bad applied to the in-
stitutioo for an additional supply of its new instruc-
tions for the restoration et the apparently drowsed, in
order that the same might be extensively circulated in
every hospital and barracks of the British army at home
and abroad. Some of the French porta were having these
valuable rules treaslated mad earoidated no the emote ; and
we trust that mayora, tows commissioners, sad others will
at this period of the year waist the institution to exten-
sively distributing these direction' ea the coast, banks
river% daubs, sod 'Limbers. The French unternmeat bad
instructed Capitalise de Taiwan de la Roche liennthome,
of the Imperial wavy, to whit the lostitutiom *ad seam id
its lifeboat statism', with the view of malting hisiolf
unabated with the mode of the opecatiors of the society as
6e coasts of the United Kingdom. Messrs. Parent are
now building three lifeboats for the French government
ander the semmatendeace of the institution.