The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-01 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.)

AUL ROBBUCE ON PoLITICsa 4FFetlitB.

A great Liberal assemblage took plaoe at Bath on
Tuesday 'lnning, the omission being the prmsittation, by the
working classes of that city, of a handsome testimonial to
Thomas Phion, Seq., the popular but unattocaeful candidate
in the liberal interest at the last Median. The promediogs
derived additional interest from the prawn" of J. A. Roe-
buck, Bey., M.P. for Sheffield, who barn not appeared poblioly
in Bath smog be defeat in 1847. The posentalion has med.
at &Bolas held at the Guildhall, the Inge ban slim-room
et which was inadequate to eccommodate nataitars who
wished to be ppwaeroot, so that alter tea the tables had to be re-
moved, to Mrkataom for those who wen willing to pay larch
merely to hear the spenthes. Mr. Phis* was Nona=
the platform by Mr. Tile, M.P., end several of the
coencillore, and loading literals of the city, and both gentle-
-1 men weft received with eminedemis melamations
and navies of handkerchiefs by the crowded maws, a fair
penportka of which were loam Mr. Ito•bork also, ou
antosigaditly making hie appearaace, accompanied by his
brother-Da-law. Dr. Falconer) on-mailer, Ma. and Ilia
Boston* and Mrs. sod Mlle Falconer, was received by •
paha ovation of applause. The pomadinge throughout
were el • most antinuismio character. . .

Mr. C. 01233111•11, • working mew, woo called to the
teak awl bristly *wed the prooeedlop. LOWIMIN ex-
meilootteanirehlrity d thee/rime to be present, were waao—____
re 8,144 ALP*, ms. Bet4ll

Mr. Lyeley, M.P., and it wee dee Mated dal
Mr. Bernal Osborne was prevented by haparnat dans Oran
attasillig.
The teedmonlal, consistag of • very badmen' Aar tea
aid coffee service, in • suitable =bops, UPI, was un-
paired snag lowareeheang, mad lalsw.fo47 yet fis
r=takNamon tap rusg Seen ningery pun ,Mr..
enot watamvediixon eati er the
onlarat bra the 46*
• sursurein te Thane Plan len, Irg his Moods
'be ironing classes of Buens le his whims =Le
avow, oithah• 14,04' Nov. I8*" Ties
nal woe slassereapand hp • elaitabie Wan Ilesalifully
written la time 111010001•11 eller
Mr. NATI'', 13•1111/11, a "Ott oelpeater, p11•111/01
the tanocelal it a fawn sod speak la
eulogies' Mr. Phial; Imarl thalleny•Dweellßekinn
Bill es • awn eonli for du right of ths worlds!
ohms tonne In the represented= of the 'notuatry.
Kr. Panes, ins imannened with great eltealser, wales
of Issaillistelsisis, and nag yarn of ageser, which ewe
asp= and igen renewed, then retard thanks at con
elderable Lag* rot wely for the bsideine inineato, bat
for ihre Men am" eadielludingen whin!t tai the mann
Mr. 11111. M.P., ant named the
Mr. Ozone= Cox, Jan , moved thens=g;ltenke of the
meam6 is W. Tin Seq., ILP.,•ad John Arthur Rootisok,
far their grew Medan it r•=o the ear
eliSSioll• or the working wen to attend the

Mr. Frain= seermied the resolution, end it wee carried
wiannast.
Jou Ammon Rosman, Seq., M.P., an hiving been
ailed en by she wee retched with a reiterstion of
the appease which trwgd Ids 1601001,, the modem ristag
sad wades bete far severed album. la
the comet of Al. the bee. gentlema, after Maids(
the made( be blames to him on th
an
co rie
breed Ilia meentos with ft& city sevaresd-twenty
years ago._ awl proceeded *ampere the prom with the
pet. Had any Wore ammod through enlarging the
selings? (Na, no.) Red Bealsal not fispoved SIM hod
improved sem in these twontreeme yeess * way
twatetreerma pen of bar history. (01sers.) I keow very
well (mid the boa. matisema) thee we have hand elms
then le Maims the lead as by lights* symal; I know
we lame been able, by mimed the elsetrie
to seed • merge from owe port of tho%elhe
the Mbar, baba the, the globs Meg travels; we Nee
bees able te mom the meet attest* by seem. We
have freed the press of goateed, aid brought home eermy
ma's door the life and light if imerbilas. (Rem, MO
We have Mad not only the pee Ns amerce .(Mr
bear)—and Ragland now etaade aimed se a 4tt uato the
nations. (Cheen.) She alone of ell maakthd le a free-
tredsr, and she le the greeted elder of all amaktad.
(Appease.) I mak you, then, Uwe need fear a Reform lilt ?
(No, no.) Takiog the past effect for 27 years of Lard
Jobe guesell's firm Reform BW, I ..k why need we Mr to
tread hie liberality, and to mks into the bosom of the
cenwitution the large masses of the working dames? (Heer,
kw.) Mr. Phinu has told you that he Is far pogrom. He
ale sap that he le willing le take &Weed bit rise. New,
I am not. (Hear, boar. I mem to ask tor, ead by lastly
sekisa we shall obtain, a empires reform of the mama-
laths ofthisesuntry—(epplanse)-einderhin I see surd me
the low wow of tee werithvg elesess, sad hem their
telligense, mil their herd-headed good ems. Mir lamsty,
eel thdr spightear, I ask nrywilf, What have I to Mr?
BM I am trig iban the worldagenen hempen Mims by
*dr late meadoce that
I. they
la see totally unlit to elate their
kielators.that so? o.) a weak' fa political
secemy to oft • ohm to repressetsd ? If so, how did
it gems that the landed gentry Mae coast, TIM tratil Was
per 11132, the rulers of this many? Almost at the
mores plat we card* the Before MIL By defog up as
gee teen we carried the Mama cd the ems laws. In spite
of these landed gooey, these bed political eoesoutims,
we had the hutcs. Well, thee, I my, give
to the pooh of Eagleed, give to the treater
trthe - power to choose their repremettime.
am same old lady—tlasibter)—come M M end
says. “Ith, bat I don't allow my ma to go iehe Wm weer
end beam 'whs." (Renewed laughter.) This is pedsely
the seas se to segue that until the people wlt Mtbe
fremble we wont let them have it. Give then the law
this. They have shown that the, power IwkiNglaso;
they have shown that they pawn bounty ; and thaw two
Wye combined fit aai to those reprematelthes. It is
my bald that in the male, swim it pleliwoot we. shall
eat have Nano. (Hear, hear.) This is my maid opinion.
I know that genteemst diger from we I bertha I may be
deceived, but I believe that the pissed mete of Europe
Is such that men who are redly not teat upon
reform will take advantage of the turmoil that will mama-
rile arise, and we shall have the whole time, or nearly the
whole time, taken op by dismesions in foreign ethers ; and
here* comes the great elect of the retrospect that 1 wish to
mkt. When I look back to the Soothed of 1862 I find the
country thoroughly petcsful. I lad Europe in a perfect rotate
of peace as far as regarded foreign eggressica ; and I noodled
that it was totally impossibleto raise in the Room of Om-
mons a discussion upon foreign drake. What is the
now? Why there is is the public mind of Europe a vague
feeling of alarm, moths; great we look round ; they stem at
every turn—sort at every noise. Why to this?
My learned friend was very 'Lovely in his talk
of the despot of Preece. It is be that has
created this turmoiL If he were to say (end act
upon what he says) Preece is peasta4 pat down bra
aradea, and put down balmy, and seer into competition
with us in all the metal are of prow ; most se ea rivals, if
you will—friendly rivals—in the great ens of the improve-
ment of mankind, then we should be peaceful in Rome.
(Applause.) But that is not the owe. Now, what is the
result to Method ? Why, almost the only thing man am
talk of is edentate corps of Alum& We lawyers have met
together end formed • corps. We, who ought to be em-
ployed in enforcing the law, not at the point of the baymet,
are put through the drill in our own hate, sad where we are
mccustomed to eat our dinners together, to manias our rifle.
(Laughter.) This is the comparison of the two maws of
things. England io 1832 wee enabled to work out her own
regenerates in redact security. England ht 1869 I. obliged
to OM her me, from the farthest end of Scotland down to
the southern shores of England, to erm them in the but
way she out, aid induce them to magmas* together, to
form rifle cone, in order simply to praises &Nameless from
eggrersice. We have no desire to attack anybody. Beg-
lend is peaceful. (Applause.) Her conquest. ere not to be
made by the sword, or by the bullet. Her conquests am by
bet mind, by her art, and by her scissors. I say this is the
proud position of England ; and he would be • dastard
who would not sacrifice his life, and the life of ell that
is dear to litho, in order to maintain her greenest What.
(Loud applause.) I am not afraid of my country—
it is not that I em afraid of my country, it is not that I fear an
attack. We shell put that down; we have put down great
me, we need not fear little men. (Laughter and applause.)
Bat I would say to Ragland, and I would say to Eng-
land's rulers, "Consider, first end format, the interests
of England. Do not mix yourselves up in continental
politics." It may suit certain gentlemen to appear sa great
men at • oongrese of the great purrs of Europe ; but it will
not suit England. (Hear, beer.) Ragland, if she goes
into a concrete, ought to go with this declaration through
her representatives, " We shall be reedy to fight for the WA•
oiples we intend there to put forth." Bat, if we ere mot pre-
pared for that—end I think we are not prepared—(har, bear)
—then we have no business there. (applause.) Now,
supposing we were to go to war. I have been
lately is • foreign country, where I have beard
• greet deal about England's positton. A friend of
mine, well known to the world, mys that the toeless of
England is ignoble. Why? Became England will mot {o
to war for the principles which M. Montatembert and his
agents delight to support. But we have gout to war fur
greet principles, we have Warned • debt or 800 millions to
support great prieciples. We spent that 800 millions, awl
800 millioes mom, sad any militate, too, of ow sea., for
the benefit at great principles. Whet wee the Abet? The
British people placed a Bourbon upon the throne of Preece;
and what wee the revolt? I will tell yon two things, After
the Rake of Wellington pasted from Ithein into France, '
circumstances occurred which led hint to peepers hi. retreat.
He found it impoesible to retreat through that Spain that
he had juat liberated, benuee he would hove been
risen item by the Spaniards themselves. That was
the gratitude of the Spanish people for the many
thouaands of pounds that were spent La their atom
Tien we put a Bourbon on the Mom of Prance. The
consequence was that the elder portion of the Bourbon race
were always our enemies. The very moment that Louis
XVIII. mute into Pere there began all kis& of intrigued
against Emplaced on the part of the Bossiest. Now there Is
something still were due that. We acknowledged the emend
branch of the Bamboo !amity. They were dries@ out of

T WOPENCE.

IFfeliDO In 1848; they were received is hospitable Ragland ;
they Win sheltered by her mighty ogle; when they put
their to upon the shores of Reread nobody could molest
them. And what was the gratitude of theta illustrious per-
"owes Y Why, air' are of then ilinalriaus exiles ac-
tually made a pion al the seatbera Imes of England,
pointing oat when w could be attached, and lent this
rue to the Wintry at Peres, saying thug though
an age fa Reread, he vas nth child of
Frame, and would be wen end saxioes to Gator
into the tasks of those who wend eery NNW& yetacepese
actor the Channel. (tissaatioa.) That wee told nu by
rationale sew deed, whose awe I dealt think it right to
'statics, sad who said that be saw that Wee a tweineseeth
before.' He told me that ouswirsienwealted than Twitted

ii;a7;ould";;;;;Ier it pot a paidb pressen to as. ii;
that time. I did pot mention it, and I have sot norraned
It rail the present moment. The present bibs proper tiro%
when we ere asked to take pert in a European Commas, and
=tree England in foreign
_disputes, mad risk pin the
blood and treasure of Englasd to obtain radar* hka this.
M. Montalembert may wish to keep the Pepe upon Wa throne
by Engligh burets; and other friends of Italy on with
that we drove oat the throe dukes by Ee haters. We
should make eseedis whatever crags we took. We should
asks enemies of those whom we pet does, and we shard
rah mermaid friend. oi those whoa we met up. There-
fore I say to Basked, keep yoursehme,, say bathe eassery-
or, In your own tread ; zeta nest yeermtvot with Bseoran
stereo. If you an attacked, 'tribe bed a Mew that shell
asalhilats the invaders and tosiseein our paltddi. (AP-
rear) If you wish finfrirda, irk at the great colonies
that yea have established in the world. If we are to adopt
this corms tree are milliard ern myrklag the Earls!
alisinedini;elia,av:addatti:et i15,..4.= ithlvrzra,
' redraft as is the position we new bekt, et the only reedy
but people in Europe. We alone bar a tree
owl ; we dope have a government which ropresesta the
pore • we rase drawn the same of fressen. (Appease.)
ellell tie say that we at this dams an shed of as body p•
;Not a whit alit. (Laughter end applause.)) Jihad we ang
sot ; hot he no men dere ft Mod am. Whoa talc oe
brain, that army that
_pad he hot upon wilt
b.lima
never take its foot od the English soil. _ (Alppiewoo I wont
sop, reveritag to the eirearorWO us to-
gether„that I wish we had in Haw ' of Commas men
who, Ilk* our *hod Mt. Phis., take the sante view that I
do of political 'dabs of this kind. He would hive eat din
germane of his great intsihroot, and nee r, end
sithcetty ; and we might haps, by the alt of a
certain number of men *dig whim that he
holds, to maintain the parks of England later.
But I on now very much ahead that ther it • meddling
✓ich door • that there re people is who height to
lave the kris: of 666 as talked 4 os I de dream liar
that that seddllag
_spirit will area& et in i
alias. I may be celled a narrowrdnded man— Il=
OCCUMosesd to a peat deal of akar in toy Ida end I dotal
owe far it. (Laughter.) Bat this hes bra my seer object
Shark llis—Begland asti Begients reettare. For her
I num lithogred less
red early. I have not seoght my own
pentad aggroadhamest ; my rad object has been my
°curry's wallies.
have To her I have dedirted
what ildgenoe I have hod. tics keg r Uwe
an be bend eartitneades that will honor worth
is the way you have Moored it upon the present occasion,
hard upon it the people will not sewed tenants.
Yon have by this prossediag to-syour heart-
felt earldradon for the men who represent you.
If wise proceedings were reeaseut, yea would bar ear very
dilleriat from many who now reap, then positioa. You
would rally have a Howe of Ocsemor werry of the pest
people of Begird ; and when Ilan maid that I have rid
all that I add may In praise of ay her. Mind. The hon.
who was listened to with the greatest attention
lhresp reread his seat drag the nor enthusirtio
IrLpetsesdhp shortly Armee teswilwaled.