The Press.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

MR. HENLEY AND HIS CRI----7---71TICS.
THE annual meeting of the Watlingtongiven
ter the
Fveraerdmneerssd'
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(Dion)
place on
At
the dinner, which took place on the same day,
The
Health of the County Members " was
chair.
Right Hon. J. W. HENLEY, President of the
Board of Trade, responded, and in the course of w
speech principally confined to local matters he
said :—" I believe I should not say a word on
politics. It is generally supposed that nothing of
the sort is said here. I have been as close as I
could at the various meetings, and said very little;
but, fortunately, that very little I have said has
happened to attract some attention, and I cannot
complain of the very kind manner in which the
press generally have attended so humble a person as
myself. I thought it a very modest proposition to
say,that the Government meant to try to do something
in the way of amendment and reform; but some
parties have taken an exception even to the propost.
tion that we should try to do something. Whether
we shall succeed or not we cannot say till the time
come. Be that as it may, I have been set on my
head and my heels, and turned upside down and
downside up, and inside out, one way and another;
but the end of it all was only to discover a fact,
which I suppose everybody who knows me at all
knew before. They say " Hang it, he is only a Tory."
1 don't suppose anybody in the country who knows
anything about me supposed I was anything else.
But that is all, after all the twisting and turning,
that people have arrived at. 1 don't complain,
because I never expected to be considered anything
else. One matter, however, a little surprised me.
That is, they say because I am a Tory I was net'.
rally satisfied with the old system of rotten borough
representation. I beg leave to deny that sort of im-
peachment. I never was satisfied with it, and I defy
any man to bring forward any expression of mine
that ever showed my satisfaction with it. It is not
because I did not like that that I was to like the way
in which it was sought to be amended. That is the
only matter I complain of. I don't call it a misre-
presentation, because it is not likely so bumble
an individual as myself, who, at the time re•
ferred to, took no prominent part in public matters,
could be misrepresented, as no one on the press
could know whether I was alive or dead. But I
deny the conclusion that because I have been slimy
life a Tory I was on that account satisfied with the
state of things existing before 1832. My hon. friend
would pull me down as quiA
ly as possible if I were
to go into anything like politics. This is not the
I
I can, with the assistance of my own sense of what
placein p u bfol i rc
tohreamp. r i vAaltiet shtwatt ne wlns hsawlyl al is,
Wahyast, asw h feat
is right, do the best I can ; and if a man tries to do
what he can, in a high or low station, I believe be
will satisfy his own conscience and the public. If
cannotgiveitup
do
amy
ltogether."
Loud to my own satisfaction I shall
Loud cheers followed the speech of the right hon.
gentleman.

MR. J. BRIGHT, M.P., ON EMIGRATION.
IN a letter addressed by Mr. Bright in reply to a
circular requesting him to attend a meeting of the
Glasgow Council of Trades Delegates on the subject
of emigration, the hon. gentleman makes the follow •
ing remarks :—" I have read your resolutions, and I
am not surprised that great numbers of the working
men are anxious to emigrate. If I wereyounger, andia
their position, I should strain every nerve to enable me
to find a home in the United States or in one of the
British colonies. I do not think you are quite correct
in the assertions of the resolutions. Generally the
waste lands in the colonies belong to the colonies.
Canada belongs to the people of Canada, and
Australia to the people of Australia, and I think any
other arrangement would work badly. Any inter-
ference by the Home Government would do mischief,
and would certainly bleed disputes between it and
the Colonial Governments and populations. Again, I
do not know that it is the " bounden duty" of the
Government to adopt measures to enable a portion
of our copulation to emigrate, for if such a duty is
laid upon it, I know not where it must end. Every
man who thinks he can improve his position abroad
may ask to be sent abroad, and, all men having on
equal claim upon the Goverment, the difficulty Essl
become, and soon would become, insurmountable. I
do not believe that it is the duty of the Government to
provide means of emigration for the people, and there-
fore I could not support the main point in your reso!u.
tw i
o. What I have long told the working men s this •
Here you have no political power, for the arrange-
ments of the Reform Bill purposely excluded you.
Here you are mixed up with he wretched contiiion
of European politics, and your sweat is pawned by
the crimes of past generations. So thoroughly