The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WESTMINSTER.
A densely crowded meeting of the electors of
Weettniaster assembled last night at St. Jesies's-ball, Re-
gest-strait, on the ievitstioe of Mr. Stuart Kill's sem
mitts", to bear as address from the bon. candidate. Not
only was the body of the hall peeked to its full extent,
but the galleries wore filled by • douse body of people,
among whom Wen a considerable number of ladies.
Mr. S. Mill on entering the ball was loudly cheered. The
chair was takes by Dr. LASlZellil, who introduced the
hoe. candidate. He observed that Mr. Mill was an en.
knows to the men of Eaglaad by reputation. Wherever
the interest of humanity lay deep in the hearts
of men, there the name of John Stuart Mill was I
known. They saw before them the greet phikeoplar
of the day._ and he should have benstill
better pleased if they could have sleeted him without seeing
him. He wee not the chimeras theorist which he was said
to be, bat bad ceased to write and advocate poetised
camores. Indeed, he was of all men one of the mad
practical, sad though some of his ideas were termed
crotchets, they would tura out to be the seed from which
they would hereafter have abeadaat Inman He hoped
he would not be opposed bemuse he might happen to kid
religious *pintoes differing from others. He thought the
most disgraceful feature of the present West:dasher elm
ties was the. opposition raised to him cc wont of his I
religions opincioe. He sonsed nab opponents of want of
Christian charity, and they ought to be silent wises • gas
like Mr. Mill came forward sod aimed to represent them to
parliament.
Kr. Mti.h, ea rising, was remind with renewed "haring.
He spoke as follows—Ladies and
those~
—lt is wada-
ble toot many person present desire that I 'Mold expiate
why it ft that I have hitherto abstained from all the on&
vary practioss of candidates—even from weans( at
Wilk, merino of electors. My remise for Meg so wore
mentioned is the letter in whisk I aisainted to hams •
candidate. Wham I said in that letter that I did see
desire to sit in parliament, I tusent-what I said. I have
so personal object to be promoted by it. It is • oat
smith" of pensonal tastes and pared% arid of that liberty
which I value the more because I have scaly noestly
acquired it after • life spent in the restraints of • public
of iee. Many people think that • writer of books,
like myself. cannot have had asy • expo-
Kean The tact is, I have many Mars
of every day for thirty-dve years in • active busters sf a
public oho° Those persoaal considerations, however, I
have cast aside. Bat there was on thing that I could not
so easily amt aside—my rooted dislike to the mode is
which the suffrages of electors'are ordinarily aright. To be
teleined by a greet bay of one's casetrynin as their repre-
ss/retire is parlisineet of what is highest in their minds
and ocereenose, their sincere onvictions end patriotic
Minim, is ass of the highest honours that it is possible
for the citira of a fres Dmitri to receive; bat to be sent
into parliament to regiment that portioa of the electone
minds which is to be got .at far money, to be retailed
by teeter?, by "apes cm thing and
soother, and by laying things sot intended to reel=
upon, being oostnry to use's owe onviation, end
where it is a greater breach el morality to ken faith ties
to beak it—such • tation %hada cososive to be •
disgrace Masa of as °Dour. (Cheers.) Therefore it was
that whim a poetics of this great cosatinescy made to me
the most neezpested sod flattering proposal that I should
become a endplate, I answere I that if I did it should ma
be by ',yin oat 10,000 f., or by giving soy pledges except
the single Co. to be always open and above board. (Chows.)
Neither should it be by soliciting votes, for the while
system of pooped solicitation is • mistake. Not that I
would reedessa those who ooaform to • bed custom, provided
they de nothing to make it woos then they found ft ; list
a seat hi parliament has no right to be a matter of solicitallee,
because it caanot be • matter of favour. You have so
right to elect anybody but the fittest man, sod to the
boomed Weekender a body of men were fazed who were
sufficient' alive to what is due to public principle, sufa-
ideally eslldtesr fee their own honour sad the honor of
the ceeditnents tory, that it is sot the matt who does these
things, but the rasa who does not do them, who is worthy
to be elected. (Cheers.) That is the way in which I be-
came a candidate, and acting en the principle that you are
bond to elect the fittest roan, would it be desist ia me to
lave come before yes and a say, "Here ao to) was of
merit—elect toe?" lam sot booboo's' I osed tohrome
• medlar* myself, Witham.* I on propasa by others, and,
thought lay itetyssif, with such exaggeration and depth of
kind feeling, for which I never could be too grateful, by
innumerable persons almost all unkaowe have Perhaps
you my ask me, shoe for this reason I not come
mow you all this week, why has I come among you sow.
It is far two reasons. I wen told by those who had reason
to know the feet, that many of you desire to Mow more of
am than you bave been able to collect from what I have
written). Such a 'tremor as that left me no optics. You
' have a right to judge of the man who aspires to represset
you, sad whatever you think proper to ask him
his political opinions, it is his duty to tell you, eamba
them not °sly with perfect truth, but with perfect oper
nen (Meru) It would have been very asy for me te
put forth • plausible prefessios of political faith ; it seed
even have been one of those wishy-washy, meaning-
less, epicurism addressee which the papers are so full of,
whisk a tory or • radial might -Ake make, whioh
bind them to soda% sad which meld be ooesisteat with
my vote they might afterwards give. I could have made
out • real bone fide lid of important political questions on
which I have the satisfaction of entirely ermarring with
I you ; I might have passed gently over all subjects of pop-
, MIAs difference ; and I might have been perfectly weave
1 about my opinions which could have stertled any one. I
I did the reverse of this. (User, hear.) I put forth
so address, but lasted of it I undertook that
whatever quarries yea put to me concerning my polities'
edam I would answer tally. To questions white you
did put to me I answered with • degree of unreesrvednem
that has been a sort of reproach. Whet obliged me to say
anything to you about woman's votes or the migeremetation
of maritime? Is It likely that any of you would have
imestiosed ins ea those points, (Hear, hest-) You Watt
me what were my opinions on reform, and te aoswerlag
I did not thiak it was cousielleat with plain dealing to
keep back any part of them. (Cheers.) By doing the I
lowered myself prodigiously is the opinions of
those wise wrens who think that all • casdldate
has todo is to dimandie, to earn to commit himself to
nothing if he an help it. " How %lodides'," raid 01111 ;
glew impractical," said mother ; " How as he possibly
to be elected es each • programme r was the
thought of marry sincere friends. In answer to all this I
begged than to madder an if I had to
I would rather he honest than sleeted. ( here.) Theepsei
thought, also, perhope the electors of Westminster would
HOUSE OF OOMMONEt.*—WEDITZSDAT, JULY 5. like to be hosed too—(lend and continued cheering)—sod
The Serum took the chair at 4 o'clock. I think that they will be of opinion that the man who deals
ROYAL COMMISSION. honestly with them before he is elected is of all men the
• Oslesel Clifford, the yeoman usher of the black red, meet likely to deal konstly with them after he is. (Heir,
gam to the table and summoned the house to the House bear.) On thing lam very sure of, that even though a
ef Peers, to hear the meal assent given by commission to ma ilmid lase n" 81410.1°6 bLit. hoboi7 k th• Last Pac-
e/sera bills. Mal thing in the world. (Reamed cheers.) I presume
that you will Moll me y expect to go through a whole car
•TM SPILIIIIA, having returned and taken the chair, re- td. of political topics of tho dtic-,aa to ton yet to)
parted the result to the house. aims epee them on by on. It would be borer thatl
PRIVATE BILLS. aoswer martins afterwards, and give you any ex-
The Lola amendments to the following bills were :ow planation that you may desire ou particular points.
steered and agreed to i—Afna Valley llanway, Alexandra What I will do now is to attempt to give you
ftlewport Decks. Manchester, SiteKsbi, and Lfticalsehire an hue of the meta teggesey eg my °ogees.
Railway • Itch and Surrey and Innen Junction lam len as the advocate of advanced liberalism, and
Reilweys Rills. I should like to tell you what in my eltillietiOS those
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN words mean. Mr. Oladetose, in on of his memorable
IRELAND. speeches, which has taught every Bindle* reformer in the
Kr. HENNESSY mid be wished to ask a question of the country to look to him as our future parliamentszerleatre
rigs.= baronet the Home Secretary in edemas to M. —(chers)—ties given a his definition of the
shalt were supposed to hove been gat en be- between • tory and • libels'. He has sail that liberalism
two the goverment sod the Roman catholic, btMops is trust le the people, limited only by couldencie,
• Roman catholic university in hefted. The and toryism is trust is the people limited °iffyi sby fees,
=4:l. genllessa the member for Loath (Nr. C. For- and • very good sod apt descriptiou it of the
tesase) had mestiosed in his address to his conetitasets that elimination between the two principles. There is, hoo-
k was with the greatest satisfaction that the government ever, la my opinion, • still wider distinetion between a
had fouled that the promoters of • Ram catholic naive'. liberal ands tory Wet thee that. A liberal is • preen
gay in Ireland woo prepared to meet their views on the who looks forward for his principles of sovernmest, whits
Bet he (Mr. Hennessy) bed mereed a WMr from a tory looks backwards. (Loud cheers.) The tory is of
=ahlthop Miler, in which he stated that the Boma °Oros that the real model of good government Iles Is
bishops had not entered hito any &Ahem where babied as in the region of the past, sad the Frei-
upon that question, sod that ea areas hid pie upon which the government of the future abeaM de-
fines authorised to act in the came of their body. pond is to be found in the subjection and dependence of the
finder them eirourestances he wished to know from the great Dimon of the community is temporal matters upon
right Ma. baronet how far tbe statement made la Me the hereditary of wealth, anis spiritual matters
skean Wives of the right hoe. gentlemen the member upon the ohm° and the tory therefore to the
for Lindh, and the rumours to which it referred, wen last moment everything that could possiblyend as farther
owed, and whether she government had seared into any away boss these models of preanment. When, therefore,
essamuniatioss with the Roman catholic bishops, and If se he sincerely imeas his defeat as • Dew/salty el the age,
whether they bad agreed or disagreed to the proposals he still hookas after the past, he still thin% that good
shah had boss submittal to them. gothrosiest the restoration in some shape or other
440. GREY said the hoe. member had not gives his of feudal old he antleuei to oppose all further
satins of this question until jai before he rose to put it. progress in the sew dimming). (Hem, hear.)_ A liberal fe
them %ethos he made the statement on the part oldie rtithiag vary different from this. He probably
goverenaddepen that subject his had bad so freed OM* that we hare sot yet arrived at the perfect
leisiilealgoes jay any peeps in respect to the thew I. =of good emsonsoot, bid that it lies before and not
lie nal is Me ghetto of the QOMS UnivonitY Is. War to • bthilojk tut, that we are too far off even to
ned. appore be be the wiebes of the Boma odhqlhe be We to ore it at mem% exempt is outline, bat that
le Ude; AS the !shied of obtaining de 14 bad mg .Ven clear% fa what direction it lies, not air-
Cliumdiat
been is elltelthwth with the Lord Theamath ma Moly "arefsai of dependency, but in the smascipa
WWI MOO Simile ratted% trifled' of his own far doe • elessee—soon freedom. moreequidity,
Ow peeped Tir Omertainieg from them in what mop moo •ly of seek pima for himself. (Mon)
the AIM in view could be effected. DM he That, gee ,Is the Met ankle of ET politiosittefted.
had . bid so communicstios direct, or indirei formal . (Mesa) Nee for the mom& , plainciad us I that
err Wormer, with any, Romeo edema% aside- He hid ea I neelety and poetical inabilities" am or ought to ia •
skeeter otemeke distinctly dad the views of the goverra. I state of pommies edreaseaeit, and dist et is the very