The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-13 00:00:00

MR. MILNER GIBSON IN SUFFOLK.

Mr. Milner Gibson presided st a public dinner
given at Bungay, Suffolk, yesterday (Friday) evening to
Colonel Adair, who has several times contested East Suf.
folk as a liberal candidate. The only other M.P. present
besides Mr. Gibson was Mr. H. C. Adair, the brother of the
guest of the evening. In the course of the proceeding',
which were of an enthusiastic character. Mr. Gibson
observed that it had often been remarked that the
conservative party were especially the farmers' friend and
the principal supporter, of those measures which bad for
their object the prosperity of agriculture. He contended
that this was a delusion. In times gone by the counties
of England were represented largely by men belonging to
the whig or liberal party, and be believed that
they were destined to be so represented again. It had bee&
sometimes said that language was given to us fill
the purpose of concealing our though's ; and certainly
this must have been the case during 1566, because the
government of which he had the honour to be a member
was turned out for bringing in a reform bill. It had been
objected to the late government that they were going too
far, and that they were going to swamp the property and
intelligence of the country by the admission of poverty
and ignorance to political power, but it seemed to him
(Mr. Gibson) that the real reason why the reform bill of
the late government was objected to was that it did
not go far enough. (Laughter.) Lord Derby had en.
franchised all those whom they intended to enfranchise,
and a great many more besides. However be did not find
fault with anybody, fur be believed that the measure
which was peaking through parliament, and which would
no doubt become law, would have a very beneficial effect
upon the country. At the commencement of the session
the radial! party bad a sort of instinct that Lord Derby
and Mr. Disraeli were going to pursue a policy in accord-
ance with their views, and therefore they resolved—and
he thought wisely—to support, to some extent, Lord
Derby's adminstration.

The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain will
hold a general meeting at the Rooms of the Society of Arts
on Monday next, the Duke of Argyll in the chair.
The Atheaa ant states that the committee of the
Palestine Explorers will seek an interview, during the
ensuing week, with the eminent personages attending the
Sultan on his visit to London—and afterwards with the
Sultan himself. Their purpose is to engage the sympathies
of the rulers of Syria in the object of the society—as being
non-political and non-sectarian. The deputation will
probably consist of the Archbishop of York, Viscount
Strsuigford, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Sir Henry Raw.
linson, and Mr. Layard.

We read in the Spectator :—" The co-operative
societies are, it ►ppears, threatened with a trades' =kit
of masters against men, who send them to ' Coventry' for
underselling. The council of the Agricultural and Herb.
cultural Association recently sent to Messrs. J. and F.
Howard, of Bedford, an order for agricultural implements.
Messrs. Howard not only refused to supply the goods, bat
printed the correspondence, sent it through the trade, and
roused the agents, say the council, 'to compel other
manufacturers' to follow the same course. Clearly this is
a case of intimidation within the scope of Sir W. Erle's
commission ; but as it is masters who refuse intercourse
with a co-operative society, not men who decline to work
with one another, the House of Commons will neither
rebuke nor interfere."