The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-18 00:00:00

LORD

LEY'S REPLY TO Hi
CRITICS.

Viscount Amberley last night addressed g
erciwded meeting of am-electors of Leeds is the moo
1011. At the cosclautio, • reesialko woe digital dialathig
the approval of the wowelielore el Lord Aube/Away tis
'woad liberal eiadida** for the borough, sad rallies east
the elective to ware so efforts to mare ids lerdtbigy
return to parbeatiot to ocojaseMes with Mr. Baines, pis
present member, at Use mat general eteilko.
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Lord Amoral" in the 0001ee of his address, Andel%
some of the strielares which have bees par= apse*
speeches et Leeds. He mid :—" Very grave seimepemeg,
tattoos have appeared with regard to th. memo
it has been my duty to take oe the subject el the ae.
Marion of the soffrage. (Neer, hmr.) It kee
been said that I have asserted, retracted, and rise
seined attain opinions upon this great =Nest of week.
tall's= policy. In order to abut this entirely =foes*
charge, it will be Iseumbent on me Leidy to recall le
your zeoollectiou the history of this maw. (Cibeers.)
Having been invited by the Working Ilen's Reform Asee.
elation, I came down to Leeds in January, an made II
speech up= the sulvieet el reform containing certain pie.
oinks. Ia that speech I did not allude particularly to the
measure which has been brought by Mr. Beier Wale tba
Howe of Commons. But I expressed opinions very Imaq
able to a further extensive of the suffrage. (' Hear,' wee
applause.) Haviag oonse here on Wednesday ls night I e
asked to pledge myself to support Mr. Baines* bill is the
House of COIUMOOL There were aerials objections to eel
doing that—objediems which unfortunately I was net Neap
fully to explain at the merest, bat which, although um,
did not render me unfavourable to Mr. Babes' LA rig
made it difficult for me to give that positive pledge. am
ever, in answering one of the quake= that were pet is
me, I stated in the most distinct manner—unfortnaately I
have sot the words by ins, but still these words are re,
ported quit* =neatly in the Times—l stated that I elk
seeker adhered to the opinions =pressed in my epeask
January lest. I added that I bad outsides= these *am
several times, and that they appeared to me perfectly ma
rect. (Haar, hear.) Now, having made this statermat,
would at least have been candid, before saying that I be(
retracted the opinioas el that speech, to have take* mos
notice of the positive =sternest made by myself to the a,.
buy effect. (Loud cheers.) We were on Webs*
sight under the disadvantage of Wise somewhat in a hwy.
Perhaps if we had had more time to consider the make
the result might hare been a little different. (Roo
I might have entered, Weed I should certainly hue
entered, into • fuller =paid= el my views, ad
such an exposition would have prevented the rmolukee
which was passed. (Hear, hear.) Unfortunately, =sem,
beings. sag hurried, sad not having time for cooties,
tioo, 1 wee not prepared with the statement I aids lad
night, which has base accepted am satisfactory to the Week
electors. (Cheers.) Let me, however, again refer to tiat.
statement in order that I may explain dbtiaetly what it
wok It has bees mid that I retracted on Wednesday eight
my former opinions, and that I reamerted them lad lig%
Neither of them assertions is trim (' Hest' and ebeem.) I

retreated nothing twos Wedsesday eight which I elated
addressing you last January, nor did I retract last aide
what I had said on Wsdnesdayorith the single napkin II
one incorrect staimaset upon a matter of fast Othenne
I did not retract anything upon either of tines ocessime
(Rear and chime.) Bat I mid lest night that I entertsissi
certain °Wieling to M. Baines's bill. The objections I as.
pinned, and I also added that it was these which did pm.
vented me giving the pledge demanded. The main men
indeed the one runs which weighed seriously with es
was that, desiring a larger measure than that provided W
the bill of Mr. Baines—(loud chars)—l was afraid that ths
aloption of that bill might rather retard the advent of this
larger measure. (Renewed cheers.) I therefore stated
that, though on the whole favourable to Mr. Bainses
and inclined to vote and support it, I was sot prepared is
give a decided pledge. In fact my psalm is so very cor•
redly stated in the excellent article that appeared RI
morning in the Leeds Mercury, that I will vesture to nets
the words In order to maks it clear. (` Hen,' and chess.)
" 'Boas may be inclined to lament the scruples which,
while in all inOindiiy they would not prevent him ring
for the Borough Fraechise Bill, deter him from giving •
positive pledge to yield it at all times an nonditiral
support. But these an minor points, so ling as we an
inner, as every liberal elector by this time most *net
Vienna Amberlsy what he had always for ball
• genies and hearty parliamentary,, onner—(' ban
and cheers)—favourable to measures which go quite es to
as Mr. Bsisra's bill, if not somewhat further.' (Loud al
prolonged cheers.)
That is a very precise statemeat, and perhaps if other
writers had waited • little in seder to know whet I redly

did say Lit night, they would not have Woe into the
errors which I have now been obliged to mints (' Hear,' sad
cheers.) There appeared, however, in the Vasa of tide
owning an elaborate report of what occurred as Wednesday
night, and a brief telegraphic summary of what occurred
'eat night. (' Rear, bear,' and a voice That's like them.,
In that telegraphic summary one single point of any speech
In brought into especial promineeoe, whilst everything she
is so enppreesed—sappreeeed in such a manner sa estisel) W

pervert my real meaning. (` Hear,' and cheers.) New,
the imivitable irepromion which most be 'seamed to ,vary
reader of the Times is the abeolutely false impression died
having refused on Wedeeeday to give the pledge. I
give it on Thtusday under the preware which has bees *
upon me. (Oh, oh.). All my friends on this Oedema
know I did not yield my pressure—(hoer, beac)—bat fled
the speech made last sight was a free sat of my owe, made
bemuse they bad already, in tin most *rem
MlDeer, agreed to accept me as beim( favourable to the
broad and liberal measure of parliamentary reform.'
(Resewed chests.)

At the meeting of the members of the Royal In.
=Ratko yesterday evening a lecture was delivered by En
Balfour Stewart " On the latest Discoveries concerning the
Saes Surface." TM discoveries which formed the =Wan
of the keno» did not relate to the coristituesto of the body
of the sue, but to its photosoope and the spots on the nal.
disc.
" Mr. Macliee," says the Athenceats, " has made
• copy of his magnificant cartoon in the House of Pugs.
me= ; which copy will be sant to the Royal Academy this
year. Many will be glad to bear this mews, for the greet
picture is as yet unknown to the public.'
Mr. Feed's contribution to the Royal Academy
Exhibition represses= a party of Highland folk witness*
the departure of some emigrant relatives—a girl and an old
man are the principal figures.
Mr. Holman Hunt's picture of " Our Saviour
in the Temple," which is now at Bristol, after a lengthened
tour, will next appear in Dublin and remain there during
the approaching Exhibition.
The private view of the French Exhibition will
Saks place ea the Bth proximo ; the gallery will open to ihe
public ea the 10th of that month.
The Lords of the Treasury have ordered the iron
building, at Brampton, popularly knows as the bailees, to
be taken down, and under proper regulating' to be given to
the three quarters of London which most require the
scoommodatiaa of large edifices for exhibit's= sad other
public purposes.
Mr. Carlyle's work on Frederick the Great will
be easapletal sari week, by the publicatioa of yob. V.
ad VI.
Madame itudersdorff has been singing in Park.
We (Gardeners' Chronicle) understand that the
stbatallea twatutitise of the Royal Agricultural Society al
iteglaad have Inally resolved to report to the attune then
esemainselation that a nun of 3001. bo set apart atonal,'
for prime to be awarded by those who conduct the loaf
examinations, auperinteoded by the Oambridge and Oxford
Vaiversities.
We read in the Illustrated Times :—"On Monday
Mild Lad Pilawrites had a dangerous tall at the Haws el
Commens. He was guise through one of the doorways
whoa ems ens es the other side pushed epee the sprite
door sad knotted the amble lord dews. He was, however.
quickly ateleted up, bawd to be unhurt, inarchid late the
Muse, fell asleep eawstortably, and was sot reused use It
wee time to rise to sloes the debate. It Is wesderful that
the amble lent ass ped ao well. eansideing his act, and that
he fell upon a stem doer."
The surgeons and physicians to the guardians cd
the poor will be the medical referees employed by the Po
werstseet for life insurers sad annuitants.
Our Boulogne correspondent, writing yesterday,
says p•-•" Lave, who wandered hie two Whim, by dame.
lag Wm in the Idea.ia Revelator me tried yoisier-
day, all IL Omer. and oesdemsed to de th. It is or
pow that the exesative will take pion hare."
An oil well in Jackson, Michigan, ha
ng been sunk
test.i MO feet. It intended te sink it to the th el $.003
t The deepest ell well at premed is 2,600 feet.