The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-15 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Addition L) [TWOPENCE.

TILE RIGHT HON. I. W. HENLEY, ILP., IN
OXFORDSHIRE.

BANBURY, TUESDAY.
The anneal meeting of the Oxfordshire and
Banbury Agricultural Association wee celebrated this day at
Banbury. In the afternoon • dinner was held in the Town-
hall, at which Colonel North, M.P., President of the So-
ciety, presided. There were also present Lord Leigh, tlie
Right Hon. J. W. Harley, M.P., Mr. J. H. Lamina
M.P., Col. Cartwright, M.P., the Hon. W. Plaines, the
Mayor of Banbury, Mr. I. J. Henley, and a large num-
ber of the patty and Snows of the district.
The weal loyal and patriotie toasts having been gran,
Mr. CLITWIIO HT proposed the health of the members for
the county of Oxford, South Northamptonabire, and South
Wandokohire. He trusted that the right bon. gentleman
who had honoured them with his presence that day, notwith-
standing that politics were rigidly excluded by the rules of
the society, would be enabled to favour them at any rate with
his expeneme of Cherbourg and his opinion of the charac-
ter and important* of the works there. Since the loot meeting
of the society the right hon. gentleman had been appointed
President of the Board of Trade, and he (Mr. Cartwright)
wee satlidkd that the country generally would feel that it was
the right man in the right place. (Cheera.)
The toast having bees drunk with loud cheers,
Mr. HaillisT, M.P., teas to respond. After thanking the
stieralig km the osedishty with which they had received hi=
he preceded to my :—My has. colleague in the chair he.
warned as to be short k the remarks we have to make. I
hops lam sot In the habit of trespassing vary long upon
your primes on those mourns, and I can insure you that
I shall not occupy any coosiderable portion of your time now,
be I know you have a good rule in coonexiou with this
merry which requires that we should not traipse* on what
are celled political subjects—those subjects on which differ-
enoss of opinion are likely to exist; at the same time there are
some subjects on which no difference of opinion can arise,
and which I may be excused for alluding to for • moment,
whether they be of a domestic or a general political character.
(Chases.) I In the first place, that I may congratu-
late the mashy on its general state of prosperity. (Loud
=sera.) Ups, former occasions when I have had the
honour of =drawing you here, I have said that we
were unfortunately placed In the position of having
empty workhouses and full gaols. I am glad, how-
ever, to he enabled to say to-day that we have both
empty Teahouses and empty gaols. (Chien.) I was glad
Sr find, on returning home last week, that the whole number
then in the gaol was 82 or 83, which is. much lower than for
very many yeen. (Cheers.) Such a circumstance must
offird matter for sincere congratulation to all of us, for we
all know that crime is generally produced by the pressure of
the times, and the absence of crime leads ea to the conclusion
that our bumbler brethren are well employed. and have the
means of oomfottahle subsistence. (Cheers.) There are
many subjects of public interest on which we can also mutu-
ally congratulate ourselves. Our prospects in India, wham
there is scarcely a man among as who has not sane relative
or friend about wham he is anxious, are much more cheering
the they were when we met on this omission twelve months
ago. (Cheers.) Our women have at least been all removed
to a place of safety, and, so far as I tan judge from the ac-
counts which we receive from the disturbed districts Jr
that distant country, there I. every reason to believe
that things are growing daily better, and that the
trouble is fest subsiding. (Hear hear.) It is also
matter of congratulation to us that the war, however It may
have been begun with China, has terminated. A war with
300,000,000 of people at that vast distal= moat sienna have
neosesitsted the maintenance of a large naval torus at • con-
siderable distance been this =sultry. I do not intend to say
a weed shoat Cberbourer, aotwitbranding the sprat of my
hen. Mend Mr. Cartwright, he the simple runs that I was
sot then ; but with every disposition to believe In the good
Intentions of our neighbours, sad the good brim which It le
the mutual interest of both = ~, -'.= to maintain towards
sada other, I honestly comfese that I think it • great relief
to every Zugllahman to find that about a fourth pert of the
naval force oft= country, which has hitherto beta oft
to
some 16,000 or 18,000 miles away, will, in consequence of the
treaty with China, be enabled to return, and, at all events., if
not altogether discharged, be engaged In cruising
nom hoar, ready tot any emergency. (Hear, hear.)
no entering into a war with 300 millions of people at such
• distance was a with responsibility, end no hams,t
maid be= farms= when =eh • war would be
Fortusaisly we have now raison to believe that ft la aided:
and that circumstance aloes Is a wetter of mutual congratula-
tion for all of us. (Cheers.) Perhaps it would not be broom-
lag la me, is the once which I have now the honour to fill
as • servant of the mown, to touch upon any general political
topics ; nor would it be in accordance with the rules of this
society. Nevertheless there are some queer= upon which
we do not disagree on which I may poiribly be excused if I
sag a few wards. At many of the montage which have
lately been held in various parts of the country there has been
• censiderable quantity of loose talk by what I might almost
term " log= fish"—(laughter)—in relarenos to the govern-
ment. Persons who are now cioctipylng similar positions to
that which I have the honour to fill bays been subjected to
somewhatanne remarks. Some have abused us fur being
coassevatives, and others have abused us because
they say we are liberals. (Laughter.) Now I
an Ma mow& to remember when the name . Conservative"
Ina aerie up, for unfortunately lam not a young man. I •
rhino, however, that the three points which were then
raised, the deleadere of which were celled coneervatives, are
sow scarcely known. At any rate they have long rued to
he attacked. Those three points were—first, an indiscriminate
&trek upon the Irish church ; secondly, a demand for church
Ey. to be pat into seceder pockets. sad thhdly, the ta-
d the Hour of Lords. Those were the them
ta on which the conservative stood. Two of them were
Week= for some yam, but now ail of them have
died away. I certainly don't sea why we should be abased
for being ocaservativea, and for not going whooping and
hallooing about these matters when nobody WA= an
attack upon them. I fie sr think we have any right to be
Mimed, for we have stood still solely because those parties
who were opposed to us have given op attacking the questions
whichoriginally ooestitated coraversatiese. If dmllar quirk=
should ever be raised again, I do not think that the cion-
senative party will be found wanting in their defence.
(Cheers.) With regard to the future, lam sorry that I can-
not pretend to my anything et all. Yoa know very well
that the government are in this position—the parties who
mdse the Reform Bill have chosen for the lest six or seven
years to find fault with their own work. (Hew, bear.)
Mind you it was no work of the cooservatives. (Laughter
and cheers.) It was no 'hilt' of 011111, and therefore we had
nothing to say to it; but the pair who constructed It have
been themselves the very men who have amused themselves
for the last six or seven years in singing out all over the
country that it must be altered. (Hear, hear.) In to they
have dirtied their own art to leech •s dgree that they have
felt moat uncomfortable in it. (Laughter and cheers.) They
have never attempted to mend it themselves, bat nevertheless
they still say that It wants mending. The cry bas now gone
on for some years. As I have already said, the Reform Bill
wee no child of ours, out at the ea= time If there is any
possibility of our mending it so as to satisfy all pinks, I as.
no reason why we should not make the attempt. (Hem
hoer.) I hope I have not errors= on the rules of the;
society in what I have laid. I don't think, as a public man,
appearing before many of my mastiteente, that it would have
been fair for me to have sad lees. 1 can only add, that so
long as I have the honour of being in • poet ocin to Fern the
county, I shrill be most happy to do all he my power to pro-
mote your istinsts, sad to do ay duty sounding to the ben
light that God give me. Hitherto I have always experienced
a kind reception from all my Meade in this county and neigh-
bourhood, and I have no doubt that so longs I hold the
same sad " keep the dish even." I shall be shakily
reothed right hon. gentleman romped his seat amid
loud ahem
Cornet NORTH, M.P., end Cok•el CARTWRIOET, M.P.,
mho
Mr7l.lltower. proposed the health of the tomb= for
the city of Oxhide= dr borough of Barbary.
Mr. I.llllollTon, 11.1" ~ nezeatied. lie mid Ws right haa.
Mend Mr. Howley had them, in reference to the
Refine Bill, shot the whip bed so dirtied their
nest that they' found it tropmeltde to rem& in it, and that
the ho.. roamer who had sensed= them in the pomm-
el= of the and were also so dimerited with It that they
were detemnred at length in Neil as sierellos. Ile was
el
171.1114=d In y ttilds r hands vir II
v;4 titv "mats:
a borer Rehm BSI then that which had passed cederant=
napkin of the =Ms. Berg • Owen reformer at heart, ha
was and easier is me rekera carried out to this fullest pas-
simm soul, so king is II filly premolar= the coostituttrie of
ses. end he was thee extremely happy to bad
dos f
righthr hon. mend sad the mess= government were
prepared to try their herds, bongoes he now hoped to see all
peaks ran= let ertylag a Teeny geed measure, such set
weeld prove aidathdy bes,thQ to the whole iii,orizt.7.
ings
Several ether torts having bees given, the
were brought to a do=

Barri= AicasouxlicAL Aesocunom.—Coit-
-0 HUM 70k 3111 L—Dr. Pahwer, or Newbury, hem jest re-
solved • ermetemelueeles hue F. G. Pettigrew, Req., Y. 8.8.,
maim that i theleet wain et the Commit of the British
Areirosieglesi ateelieSsa I woe deritiel that the Congress
fee tee lilleig be MU et Newbury, sad that the Bed at
°anima kfid bliollied drafts of prerident for that owe-
don. The -mass of imelmthile in the above neighbour-
hood for Waterfall end andomortea research, hitherto 00mPa-
, navel, setuplotet, will, se doubt, aftrrd • rich trod to the
arolismiviet.