The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1868.

CUTLERS' FEAST AT SHEFFIELD.

The annual feast given by the Master Cutler of
Shield took time to the large room of the Cutlen' Hall,

on Than lay evening. The hall was most tastefully de-
corated, and the tables were adorned with • profusion of
silver epergnes, that stands, and vane. The &mem which
were displayed on the tables were of the moat choice kind.
The "fast," as le usual, was of the most tic/arch& cha-
racter, and included every delicacy. The wines were also
of the choicest vintage, and flowed in lavish rarer%
The master cutler is Robert Jackeon, Esq., who ea ably
discharged the dudes of the office during the past
year. The office of omelet ender is given to the prin-
cipel menufacturers of cutlery In the town, in tarn, and
their declining to hold the Aloe necessitates the payment
by them of • feint. It &pence that the gentleman
he whose lot the Milos fill this year, on the expiretion of
Mr. Jestreon's tint year, was unprepared to accept it, and
Mr. Anima has ',consented again to be insane ender, • dr-
etreires, we believe, without • precedent The master
entilles feast is gotta an event in Sheffield. The belle of the
pair ehorett were rung at Intervals during the whole of the
day, and particularly about firs o'clock, at which time the
sampan, anenbled. In the morning "the cutlorecompany,"
who were incorporated by an act of the 2lst James 1., and
wile are vested with powers "for the good order and govern-
eest of the makers of knives, •06.10411, shears, sickles, and
ether cutlety were., la Hellarethire," were sworn in
settee Town-hell after which they we to the Cotters'
Hall, partook of innebeom and then proceeded to the parish
elturoa, where an rosilent memos wa. preaehed le them
gip thaplaie to the company, the Rey. W. WI
A hilt' warm ad fer•CM•• amembledlik=
the erre! to the hall Met evening, to inspect the celapany
es then arrival On all previous occaoone the company bee
Wield several lending raembere of the aristocracy, as well
es
herr member. of the Home of Commons. he invita-
tion was sent to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., and there wee
a very prevalent wish in the town that he would accept it,
but the honourable gentlemen's engagements were each as
to prevent him from attending. Amongst the gen-
titres present were the Mester Coder, in the
their; Lord Mhos, Sir John W. Remain, M.P. for
dos West Riding; the Hon. Henry rozwilliam, the Light
Hen. Jame W11•41Q, who ham recently 'waved an appoint-
Milt to • ',pedal comcoleslon in India, and who was for
some years editor of the Enteonsial ; Sir Arnold Knight,
George liarthels Eeq. M.P. for Sheffield ; Thomas !Seeley,
Req., M.P. furl !Manchester ; Colonel Kennedy, a gentleman
liattneuiehei for railway eeteepries In lathe; Major Hughes,
of the 84th Regiment, which we expected in Sheffield len
sight ; the Lewd Mayor of York ; the Mayors of Doncaster,
Halifax, and Wakefield ; Wilson °verso& Esq.. deputy-
lieutenant of the West Riding ; Richard Nathaniel Philiippe,
Req., is the of one of her Majesty's lieutenant of
the city of London ; the Rev. Thomae tide, D. 13 , vicar and
mil Joan ; W. Walker, Req , judge of the Sheffield County
Court ; Charles Atkinson, Req., mayor of the borough,
wearing hi. rein of ado, ; George Limon Saunders, keel.,
chairman of the board of guardians ; and mot of the prim
&vet inhabitants of the town sad neighbourhood.
Mr. Aldermen Marranwe prorated t• The Health of the
Hight Hon. James Mean."
Mr. ',ago*, troves warmly applauded on his rialeg,
after • few obetwestkes on the murrain native of the duty be
W nedertern, asid—At Me moment that I made up my
mini to weep' that reepcseible duty, the first thing I deter-
' mimed ern wee to make myself pereonelly acquainted with
the Wade mad esearrolal intercourse of India with England.
((Hear, hear.) Gastiumen, finance is not niers arithatetio&
throe ke a groat prey ; lies at the bottom, at the root d
the government of every country. Without sound Arm
r scar government is possible; without iternom
no veremeat sound finance is retitle; and t
the first earlerion at which I arrived was that I would
me every day which I bed to spend in England to parser
ally knowing and understanding the mw..` dal relationship
between England and India. (Haar, beer.) I have long
held the opinion. and that opinion is not strange to this com-
pany or to England, that in the commercial and fiscal policy
eta nation he the foundation, the happiness, the prosperity,
end the welfare, not only of the working classes. but of the
copliallets ales. (Cheers.) I have never been able to die-
dovish between the famnete of the or and the interests of
the ether..l her newt been enabled to diatingutah hey in

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any capecity labour and capital can be separated. I ha,
never been enabled to distinguish how In any way the work-
men and his employer. or throes who are indebted to the
employer for the profitable occupation of their capital,
could in the slighteet degree be thatiagnished, for ca the
prosperity of the on., rely upon it, depends the prosperity el
all. (Heir, hear.) It has been upon these broad principles
tint I have for many years advocated those principles of free
trade which have at last fortunately become the mhos,-
lolgGd policy of the country, not ooly I may say by the
universal wheat of all patties, but even by those who were
strenuously opposed to those opinions • few years eye. I
know of no principle which is good in England which le
not good all over the world. (Hear, hear.) There
may, indeed, be striking distinctions of race and
naitonelity, Of a veriety of reasons why the tame
principles should he carried into operation in different
ways, but at teat thin I will ay, that a Pound principle
ken is • mend principle everywhere, end that I believe
that those principles by which the prosperity of thi* country
has been developed are the only principles by which the
Pfogrril7 of any people, le any pert of the world, can be
es
arid. (Load cheering.) It has been cc that ground
chiefly that I have sought to understand the counnercial
rot... aside between the Indian Empire and this enuotry,
and one of the finet step I have made in that object has been
to Irian/ this town. (Cheers.) Yon have a member who,
aided to Ms assay numerous qualities, never forgets the in-
timate of Sheffield. Hardly wen it known in the House
of Cemmens that I had euceptsd this appointment than
year bea. member applied to me to visit the manufectories
sf Eltelliabk end I am deeply indebted to the Muter Cutler
for his Invimtkm, because an • better occasion than the pre-
med it would be Impossible to visit you. (Cheers.) I have
heard to-night, by the toasts that have preceded, the h
relation which auttelse between you and the peat member.
of the aristocracy who warmed this town' _ sad in every
one of I hope names which I have heard I have
been happy to bear the tithe of houses which have,
to the honour and Industry of England, dose *vary-
thing in their power to promote the commercial paltry of
which we are receiving the benefit. They have known,
while they graced the privileges of their order, whet ft
was to encourage the interests of laterer and indnetry, sad
some of them have been foremost in framing those measures
which have done meet to the due, lopment of It., trade end
commerce of England. (Choate.) But, gentlemen, you will
perhaps permit me to refer in a few word+ to the peculiar
tircureetenote under which our Indian empire at the neatest
moment exists. One of your hon. member., whom I regret
sot to tied prevent, has diatinguiskied himself by describing
in vivid language what aesthetes a British colony.
He has painted in the brightest colones en English
colonist going out Into a country, miring with him
English institutions. and carrying out with him English
religion and Hagfish idma. That, gentlemen, is not
the are with regard to our Indian empire. We have hid
committee sitting on the colonisation of India for the last two
',calf", and that comm,ttee has jest presented its report to
the House of Commune, sad In the commencement of that
report they find it accessary to call attention to the distin-
guiohing mart between the Indian emphe and our other
colonies. They state that It dtffera In this respect. You
hare no chinos of settling colonials In that empire in the
ordinary term of colonists. Yon have laws that are alto-
gether known and eiruhlished, end almost antagonistic to
vis; you have o religion end settled national customs ; you
have • dente p potation and low rote of wares, altogether
inconsistent math the settlement of any English labourers.
Notwithstanding all thin, you have a p rpulatine of not leas
than 21)0,000,000 of people to govern ; you have Inquired for
yoarselve. • raponeibility, and It is for Busked to say
whether she will shrink from that responsibility. We will
not now inquire SA t 0 the wisdom of these secessions. We
have the responsibilities on our hands, and these reepon•
abilities we must not shrink from. It may be that, In the
bands of Providence, we are designed as the loans-
meats of civilisation; and it may be that we ere
dosignsd as the instruments for conveying a better
religion than it has beget the fortune of those mom to
poses.; hat whatever it maybe, here we ars to the
potworion of • great empire with 200,000,000 of people
whom we here undertaken to govern, and we must not
shrink now from the responolbility which devolves upon us.
(Cheers.) That being the cane, let us never forget that we
have • duty to perform to 200,000,000 of people, inerepective
of the interiors of the British empire. I believe that every
one of throe intereste is identical, and I believe the develop.
meat of their into-teats will prove to be beet foe the develop.
meat of ours; but be that as it may, we have undertaken the
duty, and whatever he the duty, that duty we ought to fulfil.
(Cheers.) It has been well observed by Sir John IAWTetIOO
sad others that the instant the late mutiny broke
nut—the lastest the power of the English people was
withdrawn—that Monist yen bad anarchy. Old feuds
and old passionit, which had teas Went for many years had
then an opportunity of exhibiting themselves. And that
proves to yon what it would be if your ruling hood went
withdrawn, if you were to gleam that power which yea have '
exerted, tint I hope atecesafully exerted, over the whole em-
pire. Seeing that we have abet duty to perform, it is for us
to take the most eulightened view with which we con worm-
plish oar object. One greet point of discussion is the inter-
n:moor of government with the religion of India I Whys
that the great bulk of right-minded and moderate men are
of opinion that while It ft our bounden duty to give free
and unlimited opportnalty for the spread of the Christian
religion, yet It would not be either who or prudent
for us es • goveremment to fondue with the religion of
the natives. (Cheers.) lam roe althea' who believe that
if you have a great duty to parkins in • country like India,
it will be hat pet formed by example, by showing that your
system of religiin Is oft higher mad bettor gnat, than their.,
by insert. ..leg them with the jualee of your laws, by the
heat I y of y..to actions toward' then, mod by that interonrse
which le, wimps, though It may be and • low motive, I
beim" genetically to be one of the beer, by that laiercone

whisk is promoted by the =hangs of mutual interests, of
eineseiros and industry. (Beer, hear.) What we have to
look to is the development of the reaurcee of India. No
doubt we have enormous difficulties to encounter. We
have the difficulty of caste, and I. all ask any man who
knows this country, to consider how hapuesible the progress
of seritiary would hove Lean if every clam of men had been
thceiliesa position, incapable of rising above that point, or
abating themselves. In India you see the people tied down
by osenkand whatever their Weals or custom may be, they
Brat ries: so you may well conceive the enormous impedi-
ments which exists to the program of that country. Knowing
tbat them difficultie• tent, it is our duty to mender how we
am hag contend against them. It Is the character of the
l people, knowing difficulties, not to attempt to .kirk
itat to meet and CATlVOlnetbam.Now,ditticultuthetank
may el contending with that feeling of CIAO in the east, I
haw bops. that with the introduction of railways, with free
eammerein intercom:se between man and man. with • Intend
eannsmicatioe, and above all by the justice which la
in the European courts in leer to the lowest
as al& s the highest, you may in course of time even con-
gest that difficulty. (Cheers.) The railways which have
bats &beady opened have dose much to that ad, for you
fad apple of different oastes travelling in the same ca-
ttail who hays never before been ems together. The
physical Impossibility of eliminates is putting an end to
died:tenon, and by that menus we may hope in comes
of time to overcome this difficulty, which I take to be
the gad temsdiment to the civilismion of the east. (Hear.
hear.) However that may be, we have but one duty to per-
form. We have to follow out the principles we have lowa
to massed in the west; we have to give to industry a Yr
field ; we have to give to it every t Whisk her
and seder an possibly give ; we nave to for our wanes
sad he our prosperity twat the prosperity of the =
(eissere)e-^tettabove an, it. lose ea rely ago& that
cecanunicatiet between our `seam wake and the com-
merce of this country. (lies,, hem.) Reathinien,
you have had some experiewm of this policy in
this country. You know vary well that for many
years great diffetenees of *aka Wood is to the
financial and commercial policy of thin country, awl you
know that notenthatandicg the great difficalties which Sir
Robert Peel =countered he at kat iscoseded in potting
year thence. in a flourishing condition; and they wereonly
so done by the lumens of important fiscal end commercial re-
lations. That, I believe, will be the case with regard to
India. (Hear.) But independent of that, let me for one
moment ornignitulate you upon the altered state of affairs in
Europe. After being placed in estate of considerable anxiety
for some month,, you have been told to-sight. and I believe
justly told, that Europe is now in • stated pesos. (Caine.)
I for one hope that nothing will proceed from this country
which all enderger that peace. I sins with every word
which has fallen from your chairman to-tight, and I
believe that it Is the universal ostakm of this country that
the peace of Europe end the alliance with Fresco me
esuatisi for the interests of this country. (Cheers.) I
beim that it is the wish al emery perms in this °snotty,
whose opinion In worth saythisg, that the gores al
Europe and the alliance with Frame geoid be man-
; but at the WIN time I agree with your chair-
men that the plate of Europe sad the alliance of France
will be beet maintained by maintaining that dignified
position which England has always held, and that
a perked preparation for war will be the beat security for
peace. (Loud chem.) Bat, gontlenien, you Dave been
threatecci within the last week with • declaration of war.
Now I for one shall not at all regret If that declaration
of me should be carried out. The Count de Keay his in a
speech threatened England with a declaration of war, end it
is the declereti in of • war which I sea are England will be
glad to engage in. He hes threatened England with • de-
claration of war in a rivalry of commove.. (Cheers.) Well,
that is • declaration of war which lam sure upon @gust
arms story Englishman will prove victorious. It is,
moreover, a declaration of war of which we shall never
hope to me a declaration of peace. (Cheers.) There Is
nothing that English traders desire more than to enter
into • friendly rivalry with all the wend ; but I would,
If I might creaume to advise Count de Moray and
oar French friend., humbly suggest that, if they will enter
into • war of that kind, they should first of all dieembarrime
themselves of a great number of prohibition.. which till
certainly go against them. (Hear, bear) If they enter
into that war es they are at present situated, they will fled
themselves like jockeys ovarloadoe. (• Hear, beer," and
laughter.) It was only to-day that mylfrieed the member for
Manchester stationed a atecureatance which will illustrate
what I wish to *vier. H. mid that one of the greaten
dimoveries of the age with rased to cows-spinning had
been made in France; and, singular as it nay appear,
not a single French manufacturer could be found who was
willing to pay for this discovery end adopt it; but gen-
tlemen in Pdsnebeeler were to be frond who wets affirm to
pay 100,0001. bertha iliVilktiOn. In France they aid, " No,
we are protested by oar lame, we regain no Improved ma-
chinery, we are contented with the profit. we nuke, and
therefore we do not choose to pay fur sny Improvement."
can tell the Count de Monty and the French government
that if they enter into such • war as I have dementia, they
must learn to buy the hest Improvements at the highest
pace. (Hear.) Thereinto, gentlemen, if the French
choose to enter into that war, I em sure it to one you will
not object to ; I em sure that it is one to which no manu-
facturing community in this country will object; end
whether they choose to accept fire treat or sot, we are per.
fatly prepared to accept the challenge to the war in rivalry
of commerce and manufacture with which we have been
thrinteeed. (Hear.) 1 will only conclude by saying that In
the great Mama to ladle which I have accepted, it shall be
my duty, sa I shall feel it to be my interest, to study the
development of that nmatry in its indium-Iml resources.
I tellers that In dna; so 1 shall Lett discharge thee"
duties which are attested to me, and that 1 shall be
most likely to recover the finances, which I mint
acknowledge ors at the preset Sims in • most dit.pi-
Aug Mate. I believe that It is only from the ftseral
prosperity of the people, and the extension of their tem-
mace, that you can expect to develop and improve the state
of the finances of Indic Fortunately, you may say that you
hays pima the empire in • tionditien from which you have
nothing to fees from external aggreestoe or from internal
insurrection. Be comas for the future without any further
enlargement of that empire; cen.ult the interests of the
people tam your charge; and above all let us tee that those
fiiendly finings which ought to unite the common subjects
of our Quern are brought into lull and fair play. By the se
measure., and by stela policy, I atone expect to or. here-
after, but sit no Menet day. a flourishing Indisn empire
united with a flonriehing United Kintedom (Lout the, rs )
Mr. Alderman Drive proposed the health of the members
for the West Riding, which was nopooded to by
Sir J. W. RAMSDIN, 111. P„ in reierrisg to foreign affairs,
observed—For the first time in the memory of any one living
• great European war has been commehoed and brought to a
conclusion in which England has bad no hand. (Cheers.) I
trust that as we have bed no hand Is the war. en, for the
prevent at least, we shall have no had in the errangestente
which may follow upon the machines el that war. (Hear.)
When this war broke out there was • satiates de-ire in
this country for neutrality. That was not a mere feeling
that lb. war was no concern of outs, and that
it was not for us to opine our bleed mud freemen in other
earn r quarrel. I bele...that bade great deal to du with it,
but still there wee • bights, nomad on which we deter-
mined to be free from that centime However much we telt
• that the position of Austria in Italy was to be condemned,
still I behave in belt that the iinforfutate position of that
country was made the excuse for a violation of the rights of
the people of that country, that the people felt that a great
mita had bleu committed, and that they ought to stand
aloof, and not give their sanction to that crime. I rejoice that
se far at least the government of England has kept itself
foe hens the negotiatem which has followed the peace. I
rejoice to see the attitude which has bees assumed by the
population of Italy. I rejoice to see that in that country
which ha. a long been croehed by the WWII arm of despo-
Mem, freedom has been dented, freedom to be used without
licence—l rejoice to see that constitutional government has
been set up, and that we an bail in the inhabitants of that
country cavorts to those deettimes of which for so lung this
country was the sole representative in Europe. And, pimie-
nto, I think there is but one ground which could justly the
teterference of our government in the congress which will
probably take plate to Kittle the affairs of Italy, and that is
that they should ream the imarentee of the Cites Powers
of Europe that the people of Italy shall be consulted in any
settlement that may be propoeet. (Applause.)
Several other toasts were proposed, and the entertainment
lasted to • late heir.

PORT OP FoLKEsToNx.—Tha trade of the port of
Folkestone has so much increased, that the already ester.sive
examining floors are found insufficient for the present basi-
n-.a; and plans sad speciflmtions have been made, by order
of the South Eastern Railway Company, for the building of
another large examining floor. Provision is likewise, we
undsretsnd, to be made for the construction of a bonded
floor, which has been wanted foe wine time. gods having
been renamed to London in bead, and the duties paid there,
which would have been paid at Folkestone had there best
a proper place hi which sanded goods could have been de-
posited. On Tuesdey last the Prince Ernest, Ceptain
Robinson, from Thmlogne, brought LOSO baskets if Chem-
pages, end 361 packages of general merchandise, tbie being
the largest imputation of wine landed in one day at this
port. The sum contemplated to be expended at the port of
Folkestone in constructing new floors is about 2,1301.,
which, we believe, wee settled when the South Eastern
Railway directors met on Thursday last. Tbe Board of
Cellos. hove net a landing-waiter from Leadon for the
roast, Instead of appointing oaf as was communicated, to
this port. A request has been maile to the honourable board
to iIitTOSPII the staff of weighers, by the addition of four or
sin • but the answer ha. been, "No permanent increase is to
be lode till the new floor Is bolt." From this it I. Inferred
that a revisits and re-classifleation will be made of she whole

cd dam alkare at the port. —Cosi, Serowe Oavtte.
CRYSTAL PALACt.—ONE SIIILLING DAY.—FII-
- Seri. 2.—Adatisakea oat oapaent, 4,138 ; by
Nem ticker, 388; weal vidtas, 4,628.