The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additionaj

LORD WODRHOUSR AND MR. OURDON, ILP.,

ON FOLUNTMAING.

At an entertainment given on Tuesday by Mr.
Brampton Gordon, M.P., to the volunteers of Denham and
Wymoodbam, at his residence, Litton-hell, Norfolk :
Lord WODEHOUB.; in respond* to the toast of "The
honorary members of the volunteer corps," said—The sub-
ject of volunteers has latterly been so much spoken about,
and so much written about, that perhaps there remains very
little that is new to be said on that topic ; but although the
subject is not a new oar I think it • very excelliont our. I
am convinced that we, as a nation, owe much to the move-
ment, as it was formerly called, but to the establiohmen
as it may now be called, of the volunteers. (Hear, bow.
For my own part, I haloes to what I trust is not owed
the deed weight of the corps, but which may be called the
inactive part of the corps ; and I, therefore, may be consi-
dered as of king more to the arts of peace, while you the
volunteers look more to the arts of war. Now, I would my
that in a country such as ours, where the people have risen
to so great an eminence—sad this, I think, I may say with-
out any undue comae—in all the arts which bring wealth to
a country—a country which stands to high in the world as
regards rL commerce, and, I may say, which 'tends so high
in the world as regards its agriculture—l say
in a country such as this, devoted to these arts
for a long series of year., we have especial
reason to thank those who recall to us the stern
necessities of war. (Hear, hear.) We may depend upon it'
that the heart of a nation is not sound, unless every man in
it, according to his capacity, is prepared to defied those ad-
vantages and blame. which he enjoys. This nation has
shown most unmistakably that timed sp(iit leas been kept
alive and still burns within her. ( Timm the
earliest times a nation that has not been prepared at ones
emcee sacrifices has bees in danger; bat I laity goy that
this nation has sever bees is &agar blesses she bee always
been prepared to make sacrifiese—ays. and the greatest
ssenillote, if neessary—te avert any Auger that may have
lessened her. (Mews.) No man is now disposed to
under estimate the value of the volunteers, and if at any time
we may have been the least disposed to do so, we
have had a lesson in what has taken place in the limited
States, showing what a volunteer force can do. (Hear.)
At the outbreak of that bloody war both parer were
volunteers; and we have seen with what perseverance,
with what unflinching courage, they have fought upon those
terrible fields that have been strewn with molt terrific car-
nags so much of the best blood in the United States.
(Hear, hear.) A deplorable war it is, co doubt ; but from
et we may learn something; we may learn from it that
should the necessity ever arise oar volunteers win be fit.
after no long practice, to take their place in the field by the
side of the regular forces. But I trait that we in this
country may never be driven to that most direful necessity
of nemg troops by compulsion. (Hear, hear.) It
is our boast that our whole forces are voluoteen—
not merely those who are the volunteers more especially,
but the whole of our regular tomes are raised by volun-
teering. (Obese.) I trust that this will never be other-
Wise, and lam see that so long as the spirit which now
prevails anion as esteem to exist—a willingness to come
forward and assist the regular forose—so long shall we have
000 Deed of that most hateful system of conscription to which
they have been obliged to resort in the United States.
(Cheers.) Lord Wodehonse concluded by congratulating
the local corps on their efficiency, and premising a prise to
be shot for.

Mr. Guarax, M.P., in proposing "Suomi to the Volun-
teer Force," mid he regarded the swore of the volunteer
movement as a matter of great importance. It had already
been so suocessful that at the present moment there
were no fewer than 150000 volunteers eorolled, and he
had no doubt that if eicsaiou should call for
their services the number could be increased to almost any
extent to which arms, ammunition, and Alan could be
provided. (Cheers.) It was sometime meld that the move-
ment had alerted in • genic about invasion, but be that
as it might, there was no doubt that at the time the forth
was brought into ex lather, • feeling prevailed throughout the
country that the state of our defences was not what it
ought to have been. At the same time there was a very
general indisposition, as he trusted there always would be,
Niany large lemmas of the standing army. However
crent t the army and militia were, it was thought that a
larger faros than was necemary for a standing army might in
an emergency bs»qaired, and therefore, by a spontaneous
effort, not anggatd by the government, bat solely emanat-
ing from the public spirit of the country, there had
sprung into life the magnificent throe, a tlarge Portion of
which the public bad had the opportunity of seeing at the
great review in Hyde Park, about two pars since. (Hear,
bear.) The movement had now obtained so great a hold
on the minds of the people, that he might almost may it
had become one of the familiar sports andexeseiw of the
country, and Is. thought it was not likely that parliament
or the government would refuse any reasonable aid and se-
w ot that might be needed to mantels the volunteer
force in an efficient state. The peace of the country must
in a great measure depend upon its defence; and
the volunteers were intended solely as a defensive
force, under no circumstances to be teed for ag-
gressive purposes. Their services would be confined
to the maintenance of the country in its present state
of security. Providence had blessed the nation with vest
possessions, great riches, and many other advantages, and it
was both the duty and the inclination of the people to trans-
mit those advantages unimpaired to posterity. Ile knew of
no
means more likely to effect this object than the volunteer
force, which was • guarantee for the security of the country,
and which consequently was deserving of all support.
(Mean.)
Other speeches of a local character followed, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

NE. C. W. W. WYNN, 11.1::,..ON NR.SOMES'S BEER

BILL,

The Machyulleth Agricultural Society held its
annual show and dinner last week under the presidents of
Earl Vest

The sable CIIAIRMAI proposed the health of the member
for the eounty, Mr. Charles Wynn, and the health of the
member for the Montgomeryshire boroughs, Mr. Tracy.
(Applause.) On behalf of his old friend on his right (Mr.
Wynn) he might be led to my perhaps too much from a
long said valued acquaintance, and, therefore, his allusion to
it was sufficient. (Cheers.) He believed be had dose his
duty to his constituents conscientiously. With respect to the
member for the boroughs he Iliad had no personal acquaint-
ance without to my much of binitbut no doubt be was a very
estimablernan. It would be chikt b and foolish in tbe extreme
for him to my that he wished him to be long In the position
in which he was placed as their member. (laughtee and
cheers.) For himself, as a peer of the realm, be had no
voice in the election of any one ; but be trusted to see •
different result at the next election for the boroughs. He
begged to drink the health' of Mr. Charles Wynn and Mr.
Tracy. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WYNN mid he was vary much obliged to them for
the honour the had done him in drinking his health. He
also thanked them for placing him in the high and dis-
tinguished position of their representative for the county of
Montgomery ; and he also thanked them for sending him
to the British House of Parliament unfettered by • single
pledge. (Cheers.) They had been pleased to continue
that confidence, and he was obliged to them for it. The
question might be put, " What have you done since you
have been to parliament r But this was not the plans-
to make • confession, although he was not averse to say-
ing a few words upon the matter. The general regatta of
the last session heel not been marbly' by anything very
great u regards any very important political measure, but
the MapiOD bad not been without its noes and its labour,.
If poor Mr. Brotherton, who, he hoped, was better engaged
now, bad been there, he would have seen full benches UV
many occasions after twelve o'clock. In all the large or
small societies, or guilds in London or elsewhere, some one
was sure to get up and my that politics must not be touched
upon in order to promote general harmony and respect other
convictions, and no sooner had lie said so than ten to
one be began talking about politics himself ! (Laughter.)
But, thanks to them, they bad sent him to parliament to ,
do as he liked. There was a great social question upon !
which he might be allowed to say a few words, that would
steer clear of politico. It was a question which bad been I
brought forward by a gentleman of the best philanthropic
intentions to remedy a great social evil. He alluded to ,
Mr. Somes'a liquor bill for the closing of public-hour '
from 12 o'clock on Saturday night until Monday moving.
It was • subject that affected the country generally, and not
leas the tenant farmers of Montgomeryshire. Drink, they
all admitted, was the great curse of this country. H.
believed seven-eighths of the crimes committed in this ;
coantry are traceable to drink. Mr. Somas believed, as a
'
means to an end, that his bill would remedy this state of
things—to adopt, in fact, a law similar to the Maine Liquor
Law. But the people of this country had Dever beetudis.
'mooed late either religion or morality, and they would not !
be dragooned into that. He believed it was in DM that
Lord Ebnry's Act waa brought up to remedy this state of
things in Loudon, and do away with Sunday drinking and ;
Meath'. If be recollected right they were opened from
one to two or three o'clock, and to be closed the other
part of the day. The passing of this rut created such •
state of feeling in London that the houses of members
of putative% who voted for it were availed and the
windows broken. Organised mobs assembled in the squares,
parks, and public please of Loodoe, and in three weeks after
it was started it had to be withdraern by the government.
He thought it would have been better that it had not been
done at all than to byre tt withdrawn, as the cause itself
suffered by se ill.advised measure. His thought it might
work well in country places, but he did not think it would
in London and other large Dowse, if • permissive bill was
pseud, but he would sot pledge himself to support one.
With respect to Mr. Sesees's Sill, in the shape in which it
was brought in be should ham voted against it on the third
reeding ; but it was lest by an overwhelming majority on
the first. There was little doubt it would be introduced
next session in a modified shape. As regarded their other
temeseatative (Mr. Tracy), he (the speaker) was like the
' animals, he had so personal acquaintance with him ; but
be bed no doubt, in all that concerned the interest, of their
=Xito, he should led aa able coadjutor in him.
load olisicing.)—Shroookry Journal.

ri'WOPENCE

THE LEIGH HAY-MAKING GASE-DEPENOZ
OP THE MAGISTRATE&

The justices at Leigh have published a defence of
their conduct in the form of a letter written by their clerk,
Mr. Richard Marsh, who asserts that the facts of the can
have been distorted and misrepresented. Hs seer" So ter
as the course pursued by the justices, in point of law, is
concerned, the Atherton Bench is fully prepared to sustain
the convictions it felt bound to pronounce, and it will await
with confidence the judgment of a superior tribunal, should
the defendants be advised to have its decieon reviewed. In
the meanwhile, however, it is doe to the justices who
convicted in the case to pot the facts in their tens light,
end so to prevent the further circulation of the groin mis-
statements which have been, and continue to he, denomi-
nated. Such misrepresentations, ttto they produce but
little effect on the intelligent and wellZiposed may. never-
theless, mislead the ignorant, and are calculated to excite
hatred against the magistrates personally, and to bring their
administration of justice into disrepute in the estimation of
the labouring classes. It is therefore hoped that the press
will act in the interests of justice and truth, and give pub-
licity to the following account of the matter. Long
before the bench interfered the attention of the local police
had been called to the numbers of working people in a state
of drunkenness on • Sunday in the vicinity of Leigh and
Atherton. In the early part of July a man mu; summoned
I before the magistrates for being drunk on the previous Sun-
' day,when he stated as his defence that he got thedrink for
making bay es thitt day ; and on the next Sunday, July 12, the
polio@ found • oart filled with drunken men returning from
• day's haymaking in the neighbourhood, and on the fol-
lowing day itionday) • clergyman made a formal complaint
to the magistrates that be and his congregation had been
disturbed while in church by the noise of the haymakers at
work in an adjeising field during the home of .Divine ser-
vice ; sad in addition to this, the police stated to the ma-
gistrates in open court that Sunday haymaking was be-
coming very general in the neighbourhood, and t much
drunkenness and disorderly conduct was produced thereby.
In neon of such a state of things, Mr. Superintendent
Orion's on the next Sunday, July 19, visited the
fields of the defendants, Howarth, Bettereby, and the Cie-
worths, having been informed that haymaking was thee going
on. In the fields of each of then defendants the police found
numbers of men, some at work, and others in a state of in.
toucan= ; sod upon inquiring from some of the men
themselves it appeared that they received no wages for the
Sunday's work, but only their meat and drink, or, as they
expressed it, " a good blow out" In the defeediset Ho-
warth's field the greatest number of the men were employed
in spreading the small gram soils. In Cleworth's field part of
the hay was in windrow, and the remaining portion winger
which appeared only to have been shaken out that day.
Consequently that portion could not palely have hese fit
foroxerytngin lees than two days; moreover, the weather was
fine settled, sad there wee no appearance el chis
foreboding damage to the crop. So much therefore for the
truth of the assertion that the Clewortbs bad a meadow of
hay ready for carrying, which, from the state of the wea-
ther, they were appreheenve of being lost, and were there-
fore compelled to resort to Sunday labour as • work of ne-
cessity to save the mop from rain.
" Such wee the cue in its general bearing and antecedents
with which themegistratee had to deal when the dedendante
abovenamed, with some of themes employed, appeared be.
fore Hobnob at Atherton to answer the charge preferred
against them nailer the Lord's Day Act. And now, it may
be asked, what were the magistrates to do! It will be ob.
mewed that the desecration of the Sunday, &grunt as it
was, was not in this one • breach of as set parlisaisat
only ; besides being an infraction of the law, this Sunday
hayroakieg was the producing cause of drunkenness and
disorderly conduct among the working people, and ft there-
for* beams the duty of the magistrates to use e legiti-
mate means to put au end to this open violation claw, at-
tended wit was by such mischievous consequences.
"The statute under which the defendants were summoned
is prune enough in its terms, and the bench considered
that the facts proved in evidence fully brought the defend-
ants within its scope. No case of necessity was made out on
behalf of say of the haymakers, and therefore then were no
grounds foe extending to them the exception contained in
the statute. still, however, the bench was unwilling to con-
vict, the object of the magistrates being rspronion rather
than punishment, and the court offered to let the defend-
ants off on payment of the outs only ; but this clemency
was misconstrued into an indication of timidity on the part
of the justices, and was indignantly declined by the defend-
ants Cleworth, who refused to pay either penalty or costa
until compelled to do so.
"The bench thus net at defiance bad but one course to
pursue in order to make the law respected ; and to put an
trod to the repeated and indecent profseatioe of the Sunday,
with its attendant consequences of drunkenness and de-
moralisation ; they, thereto-e. most properly convicted the
offenders in the penalty of Se. each, and the oasts of the
prosecution. The defendants and their ■ panniers have
sought to impute unfairness and partiality to the magi.
strain for having dismissed the case against the coal-
heavers, also summoned with the haymakers for a breech
of the Lord's Day Act ; but in this case of the coal la.
bourns it was satisfactorily shown that their Sunday work
was • work of necessity, which brought them within the
proviso of the act. In such • cue, had the =senate
convicted, how would their conduct have been attacked as
oppressive and unjust ; yet this acquittal, humane and dis-
eruninating se it was, has bees tortured into a partial and
madded application of the law by those who seek to ruin
the howl of popular prejudice against the proceedings of the
Atherton justices and the local police.
" Public feeling has also been appealed to as to the con-
duct of the police when they proceeded to enforce the sen-
tence of the petty sessions. What are the fade One of
the defendants of the five against whom distress warrants
were boned is alleged to have been in indigent circum-
stances, and sympathy has been sought to be evoked by
the picture of the constable's cruel mission to his poverty.
stricken dwelling; the poverty of this individual has in the
first place bean grossly exaggerated ; but, besides this, it
appears that be was not distrisined npou at all, for the polio.
retired leaving his voluble wife mistress of the field without
removing an article of his property. As to the dwellings of
the other four defendants, they are confessedly comfortably
furnished ; their yards well stocked, and on them the police
moat properly levied sufficient to satisfy the penalty and
coats which up to the last the defendants obstinately re-
fused to pay. The property se detrained cosseted in all of
only two pieces of household furniture and • cow, which
have since been sold by public auction, to be boughtin with
much parWeby or on behalf of the owners.
" Thus, therefore, the police, so far from acting harshly,
acted upon the side of leniency, for they halted in the exe-
cution of their duty at the first and only cry of poverty
that was raised. As to the enforcement of the penalty sad
coats against the other four defendant', it would be •
cult for even their advocate to suggest how the magistrates
or police could have acted with greater moderation, unless,
indeed, the authorities were to niter the law to become a
dead letter, and its execution to be resisted by every sturdy
and contumacious offender.

" The magistrates of the Atherton bench at present only
desire to repel the imputation of partial and oppressive ad-
mioistratims of justice. They are not responsible for the
policy, be it good or bad, of any piste of legislation on which
it is their duty to act. It may, however, be well to tell the
defenders of Sunday labour that the act of Charlie 11., on
which they have expended a great deal of ignorant criticism,
Is not the only legislation on the subject to be found in our
statute-book. This statute u only an extension of various
acts of the legislature passed in preceding reigns, the prin-
ciple of which may be traced back even to the days of our
Saxon ancestors ; and so far from the statute in question
having become forgotten or obsolete, its existence has beeg re-
cognised in soma acts of parliament relating to the same
subject down to the reign of his late Majesty William IV.
Indeed, the observance of the Sunday, not es a pharisaical
gabbed], but a day of repose from the ordinary labours of
the week. is • a time-honoured' institution among all classes
of Englishmen ; and it deserves the support of all who are
the real friends of the working community—' it humanises
by the help of conversation and society the minuets of the
lower climes ; it enables the industrious working man to
pursue his occupation in the ensuing week with health and
cheerfulness.' The Sunday is in every sense the ' poor
man's holiday,' to which every hard-handed peasant in the
kingdom is entitled as his ioheritance—a birthright which
the law in its humanity will not allow him to sell. The
Atherton magistrates, therefore, deserve, not the reproach
but the gratitude of the labouring popularises in their neigh.
bourhood, for protecting them against those who, for their
own interest, seek to deprive the weekly labourer of his
Sunday's ptiaiirge, and who are sordid enough to get a day'a
work out of their poor neighbours by the temptation of
driak instead of the molest of honest wages.'

The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be lieutenent—Frederick
StanleyEwee. To be booorary lieutenant--Williens Curling.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT LANTERN
On Tuesday evening, as the 4.5 p.m. down train from Nor-
wich to Great Yarmouth was running betereen Reedhain
and Yarmouth. the tender of one of tar engines by which
it was propelled left the rails. Both the 'sews and the
other tender and all the carrisges rye:melee& or. the metals,
and no iojury was sustained by soy of the plenums, Oa
the toils was promptly brought to a sUndAU The way
was, however, slightly injured for some little distance,
and a delay of 50 =Mum ensued before the tender was
again placed on the metals. The accident occurred near
the Berney Arms Station, and as IL. way is °sly single
at this point. some delay was occasioned in the working of
the trains, which were unusually heavy. in consequence of
Great Yarmouth races being bald es Tuesday. The ex-
cursion trains, however. safely delivered their passengers,
the last not reaching Norwieh till 1 a.m. yesterday.
The electric light is now produced by the latent
bet immense force el ghe laslaw_ S. predict/ similar to that eta'
ployed in Hr Wegaggle weleasa. LW. Hawaii mys
regard them aa the wet peeled kasha tdibert.. mane. as re-
spects their metimaled.esaragNea. sul their magnetics!
action." They are the remedy foe grey hair, neuralgia, chrome-
. thm, OwasharMe are tieing reade.-oScei, 3f.
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