The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-07 00:00:00

CHWELIJOR Or THE EXCHEQUER
AHD THE REFORM BILL.

uvicaran, MOAT NIGHT.
The Lliferpeol Liberal Association held s meeting
this inning int the Amphitheatre in support of the govern-
meat Reform Fink Mr. J. Cl. ELM took the chair at
seven Allah, Let long before that hoer every part of the
capricious bundles war demely crowded, in consequence of
it Wing hem announced that the Cherwell= of the
&chequer had promised to take part in the peoceedings.
sir. phichaens. en entering the platform, was received
with mesa/ refunds of elieseing, and Mrs. Gladstone,
who semplai • seat in one 44 .3tlse stage boxes,
was aboneurzaly received. Thoschairmart briefly opened
the preneediam, remarking that the primrose of the people
al Ilegismishas 1832, fully dimalled the apprehension of
`those alaihdievell that • radiation of the franchise would
lead to samay sad essdkaten. Let them, therefore, have
andidssoecht. tbs.ffevermaast, and espeoially in their dia.
jaiguished representative, Mr. Gladame, who had sleep
shown liadrelf the aimed et the people vied he United
that the malt el the meeting 1.914 Prins that they
would be astkelied with nothing less thastha measure of
Wane POMMiel hyleeeMajortyh miniaber• (Cheers.)
Sr. S. J. Baseketem armed
that the toilsed
hillag resiatita
the
That lib ematiagmress the to extend
elosiselicas demises of pariisaseat in
Prepaid liyherdhOMParmasemelit
7m3beirig phased tutors the, Melee of Oemmens. de-
-1 beeves 'oncost and hart, support as an honest sad pees..
killable proposal towards -an smeniment at the laws re-
lating to the representation of the people." (Cheers.)
Mr. J. R. J/S7YRIT *seconded the reeohkon, observing
that, in UM the middle dames owed • great debt to the
men of the country, who were reedy to use their
physical might to obtain fort them the political rights
withheld from them by fraud and violence. Now, when
liiipticule
an things were calm and quiet, they were bound to repay
the debt, and give the working classes that share of pann-
ed rights Ake they bad so fairly and so hardly earned for
theseseivei (Rem, hien)
Mit. Guano= then real to adhere the asecitinli end
wee remind with great chemiag, which was again and
again renewed. The right nos. geatiemes sommeneed by
describing the objects el the hill, which were to impure
the empeeition of the House of Comm; and to
elnegthen the institutions of the country, and this, he
Mated, without bringiss in any way one indictment against
psdiement ea it now stands. A merchant who found that
he could by increased outlay make increased prodt would
not first requite to be shown that his Madam already
was • bad one. The only plausible objection against the 1
principle et the all was tit was incomplete ; but the
1 'curet of this eatery lay In this, that the persons whirl
1 Mooed to I, mutant with anything less than the whole
bin were the very same persons who heartily detested the
very part that was presented to them, end knowing this,
the government had asked them, before putting it
in their' power to use one portion of the plan to
raise obetmles spinet the other, to give a pledge of
their general intention by voting for the second
reading of the bill. When them gentlemen came
to see the views of the government they would
think dim very unsound indeed ; bet their criti.
aims write Melina of little weight by the fact that they
saw no 1411111 fee say berme at all. The government
had seen a reason. The bill had been repeatedly and
solemnly prembed ; the 1101:4110i adjustment of the fran-
chise wee Weir to the waking dames, who, while they
pay threemessiths id the Immo of the eventry, and pro-
' hably • peat deal mare tian em-third of the revenue,
have only enomventh of the constituency
portion pro-
portion of the working class to the constituency
was 31 pet sent. hi 33, and now it is about 21l
so that the proportion which the government were endea-
vouring to remedy had been not as increasing, but a
dimiaishing proportim. And yet in everything that relates
to moist daty and 404•64141ity for the enjoyment of political
privileges, the working classes in that period had made
enormous advances. Mr. Gladstone then alluded to the
improving agencies which are so active in the country—the
agencies of mMisters of religion, of education, and
of the press. Could there be anything more
absurd than, after having pushed the working
men up to the utmost of our power, to turn round
and deny them that public and legal recognition to which
they were entitled by their fitness? The government were
acting, not free' • love et ocenietisa nor from • pedantic
obedience to whet was necessary to vindicate their 00n.
astency, but from a deep conviction that they were paying
• debt which honour sad justice and policy recognised as
due to the people. Mr. Gladstone then glanced at the
slump in the mind and temper of the cam-
astray within the hat 30 years, and gave it an
1 illustration drawn from his own experience not loog ago
when he found • parody of the church service altered so
as to refer to the supposed misgovernment of the people
nesetims only with ocatempt when sung in the street,
whereas such compositions at the time of the &et Reform
Ifinwereestremelypopular. The real difference (continued
Mr. Gladstone) between us and those who oppose the bill
is this—that, as I have said, they regard every
demand for the concession of increased political
'privileges to their fellow countrymen as an evil—an evil
they would sanction in order, perhaps, to evade greater
evils, such as the burning of their houses over their heads,
but they are not prepared to recognise it as anything but
an evil. Hence it is we have these extraordinary demands
to know bow many exactly there will be in this town and
in that. It reminds me very much, gentlemen, of what
took piece about the time of the repeal of the corn
laws when our admission of corn from abroad was regarded
as a tremendous evil, and it was ascertained with a jealous,
feverish, and scrutinising curiosity how many quarters of
corn would come fronanterka, how many from Russia,
and how many from Odom and the Baltic. (laughter.)
We were told that there would be an inundation of foreign
corn, and this awful mischief of an undue aug-
mentation of the quantity of food for the people
was regarded with perfectly sincere, real, and true—but
we all now see, most ridiculous and conteroptible—eppre-
hensions. Very ridiculous were the errors into which men
were betrayed by this temperament. You may recollect
one of the most distinguished of the opponents of the
repeal of the corn laws discovered that there was a place in
Russia called Tamboff, and that it was credibly reported,
as he had every reason to believe, that the imports from
that place alone after the bill passed would amount to
about thirty-six millions of quarters of corn per
annum. (Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, just as res.
amble apprehendoseare entertained now. For my own
part, I stated in the House of Cameron', as a kind of
challenge, what I hoped would be repelled with eagerness
and indignation. I said to some gentlemen who were dis-
cussing this subject, you seam to treat the working men,
who ere alone to be admitted to the constitution, as sa
invading army. To my great astonishment, to my great
pain, that imputation, which I had hoped would be ia-
dignantly repelled, waswarmly accepted as a perfectly true
description of the view taken by them. (Cheers.) Is this
really so, or net ? (" No, no.") Is it true that
in this free country, in this Christian country—a
country that assumes to be not far from the had of
Christian civilisation, after 1850 years illumined
with its wisdom, teaching, sad example—is it really true
—have we come to this, that the heat we can hope in old
Ragland is that there shall be only a privileged class
within a small precinct, which we call the constitution,
and outside of it the toiling mama of our countrymen are
to be told, when they approach too near its sacred doors, that
they are en invading army' (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I must
say We would be scarcely worth having, and that certainly
the institutions for which we are so thankful would
be the cause of shame sad disgrace, if such be
their character, and if such be their resolutioa.
(Cheers.) Having referred to the volunteer move-
ment, Mr. Gladl4ollo continued : There is another
Mustrationwhich I ain't refrain from mentioning, although
it is possible that I may expose myself and *then to some
misunderstanding—l man an Mumaration from the siva
war in America. It is now five or six years ago, when par-
liamentary reform was under Monomial, that it was the
fashion to refer to the institutions of Ame-
rica as a perfect failure, and Log orations were
delivered in the House of Commons, setting teeth all the
muse of that fans" sad holding up name witiplei

• bugbear to terrify ns hontiowlenbig 1117 addition tie the
hanobise, and as an Invincible a:gement for mainteleingthe
alma, limits of the several eonstitummies. Gentlmnon,
whist lees taken place aims then lam not going .to
deliver a general hams ;mon the lige war America ; 10°01
all I am not going to draw any Invidious &tannage* wi
a distinction at all, between one section and anethinisirl
Leon ef that community. For ray paipt,my sarnestand elenien4
aspiration is—and I believe that to be the a/pi:alien and.
desire of Ingland at large—for the welfare of that nation
la every pert and portion of it, whether it be white oral
black, whether it, be North or South. (Loud' cheers.)
Neither, gentlemen, am I going to hold up American in-
stitutions as institutions to be preferred to our awn. Hsi
what I am going to do is this. I think it is our inainesias.
rose
kiad.ol. seine to thaw lemen
sf.t drum thus , feria thatlroommetbildixPwer :412°! 91
our w, mhawbs:
that they be he *pone countries or constitutionel coun-
tries, or in oountrise republican or ' democroticaL The
point I ask you to look at is this—not the comperstive
merits of American Institutions, bat the one single and.
Important point of the effect that has been pea-
.dased in Amens& by a largely extended
franchise, bra widely seed participetion on zit::
the PM* is the rhinos of their governors, the wondrafat;
the unexampled, the almost incredible effect that has beam
produced by that system of giving force of 'Myren*
the national will, and enahling the 'governmentto divehigi
the energies, and give effect te the trill, sash ere polaillir
never here developed-Inm mpg than, end mdiefielleni
*qua saabor of men, slim the race <4 maideni.
into existence. (Cheers.) less than 30,000,000—1aV
speak of the negro population, which cm
Wadi" be said to have entered into a distinct petty
war, thankful as we may be for ite ultimate effect on Viekt
destiny—(cheers)—less than 30,000,000, 20000,6004
majority and 6,000,000 in the minority coming to the
bloody issue of -war on •matter held-
men Pudic. 'requires us to admit developed an t
of
heroism, a power of self emerifee, an, energy, a pees-
verance, and a forgetfulness. of every personal intense—
an amount of form arrayed in support of their ebessal
rulers, such as I know not where to seek for in the rinnshi,J
of history of the globe. (Cheers„) Well, gentlennan
what I would say is let us learn lessons where we ant,
and amongst others let us Barn them from our brpthres,,
the children of our loins, in America. (Clearest,
The position of England, gentlemen, is a peculiar podded'
in the world. England has inherited from bygone agia.
more, perhaps, of what was most august 'and venerable tel
those ages than any other European wonky, end at the
same time her traditions of the past are so doh and
fruitful that all our minds and all our characters have,
both within our knowledge and beyond our knowledge,
been largely moulded by them. She has likewise been
exposed in the highest possible degree to every mode-
rate influence which the nineteenth century has
brought into activity. As geographically sae stands
with Europe on one side of her and America on the
other, so she stands between those feudal institutions in
which European society was formed and which have given
her hierarchy of class, and on the other side those prin-
ciples of equality which form the bailed society in Arm*.
She is not by a servile imitation of either the me or the
other to forget her own glorious history, but on the
smarmy it Is for her to cheetah everything the has
invested, and to improve it ; but to improve it'
for the sake of preserving it (cheers) but it is
her (duty while she so looks on the nest to
learn likewise from the present. (Hear.) Recent events'
which have taken place on the other aide ofd Atlantic
have demonstrated to us how, by enlargingfranchise
augmented power elm be marshalled on behalf of the govern-
ment, and ingrained energy given to the action of a nation.
I say that without forgetfulness of the rules of prudence and
circumspection, always acting within the limits of modesty
and moderation, but with firmness and determination,
we ought to observe, we ought to copy, and we ought
to appropriate, the lessons which may be gathered from
the experience of other portions of the human family.
(Cheers.) It is sometimes said that the measure we pro-
pose is a democratic measure. The word " democracy "
has very different senses. If by democracy be meant
liberty—if by democracybe meant the extension to each man
in his own sphere of every privilege and of every franchise
that he can exercise with advantage to himself and with
safety to the state—then I must °outer I don't see much
to alarm ris in the word democracy. (Cheers.) But if by
democracy be meant the enthroning of ignorance against
knowledge—the setting up of vice in opposition to virtue,
the disregard of rank, the forgetfulness of what our
fathers have done for us, Indifference or coldness with re-
gard to the inheritance we enjoy—then, gentlemen, I for
one—and I believe for all I have the honour to address—
in that sense am the enemy of democracy. But in such
a sense this is not a democratic community. On the con-
trary, there is a love for that arrangement and constitu-
tion of society which we have inherited from former times,
and I don't believe that of the entire community there is
one man in a hundred who would disturb it if he could.
There is but one thing that can make this country, aristo-
cratic in its feelings, become a country democratic in its
feelings that day I think would be an unhappy day, and I
know nothing that could bring that day about unless it
were a forgetfulness by the British atistocrasy, that their
order has in all times, beyond any aristocracy of the world,
been trustful and confiding in its temper towards
the people, mild and forbearing in its use of
privilege, and ready to give leaders to the us.
tion in every cause connected with its honour end
its liberty. (Cheers.) I am sorry, gentlemen, when-
ever, even for a moment, and even in a particular instance,
there may be a disposition to depart from the noble and
glorious traditions of the British ninon-my. lam sorry
that at the moment I now speak immediate danger to the
measure that the government have introduced should pro.
teed from a name honoured in the lists of the aristocracy.
A notice of motion has been given by Lord Gros-
venor for the purpose of defeating the bill, and
we are told—end as the announcement has been
publicly made without contradiction, we are, I rap-
pose, truly told—that that notice is to be seconded by Lord
Stanley. I know no two individuals more entitled to re.
spect and honour in the position they occupy ; but I am
bound to say that I think a more deplorable arrangement
won never made—(great cheering)—a more grow blunder
was never committed, than when, in the councils of poli-
tical party, with that kind of cleverness which a* °hail
outwits itself, it was determined that the two represents-
tives of two of our noblest and most ancient houses should
come forward combinedly for the purpose et defeating
an act of grace, but what is likewise, besides being an act of
grace, an act of justice, to a great community of the
country. (Loud cheers.) However, gentlemen, muck
lamenting thatunhappy instance, I am persuaded that thin
is not to be taken as an indication that there will be a
fundamental change in that wise moderation which has
hitherto for the moat part distinguished the conduct of
the most farmed members of society, those upon whom
the bounties of Providence have been poured in the largest
abundance. Ido not think that that movement, formi-
dable though it be, is likely to succeed. (Cheers.) We have
framed a measure, I think, in the strictest spirit of moders.
Lion. We donot desire—we shouldbe the finit toresist—rud-
den violent and sweeping changes ; but the progressive en-
largement of the popular franchise, with due regard to the
state and circumstances of the country, we consider not to
be liable to the application of any of the epithets bestowed
upon it. (Cheers.) Having produced this measure, framed
in a spirit of moderation, we hope to support it with de-
cision. (Continued cheering.) It is not in our power to se-
cure the passing of the measure ; that rests more with you,
and more with those whom you represent, and of whom
you are a sample, than it does with ns. Still we haws a
great responsibility, and are conscious of it, and we do not
intend to flinch from it. (Here the whole audience rope
in a body, and cheered for several minutes.) We stake
ourselves ; we stake our eminence as a government—
whether it be worth much or little is not for us to say—
but each as it is we stake it—and we oleo stake
ear political character on the adoption of the
bill in its main provisions. (Renewed chemists.)
You hove o right to expect frees Ul that we should tell yin
what we mean, end that the trumpet which it is our bus-
ter to blow shall give hell 'to uneertain mend. Its
sound bee noe been, and ! trust will nee be, ensenein. We
lave passed the Rubies's, we have broken the bridge. sod
harmed the boats behind us. We have advisedly est off

the means of retreat, and having done this we hops that as
twr as time leapt peridtted we have done our duty to the
mown and the nation. The result, gentlemen, is in other
lands than owe. I beseech you—l brash all relenting
Englishmen in whims kande, by the well understood con- •
dilation of bur country, the ultimate asalement of
this port lake is lodged, to consider what the futons
is to be. I oan't doubt, from the extraordinary working
pad movement of society, that there is on the port of the
mamas of the community a forward and onward mover
meat ; which forward and onward movement will be per-
fectly safe and harmless—and not only safe and hannleee,
but infinitely profitable—if we only deal with it vie*
sad in time.. (Cheers.) Bot reed the signs of the time.
The *otos that sae spoke as never man spoke Seabed J. -
three irtaralimity vise could not read the shred ee=
harm Doss any man really suppose that the p
;liinit sissified by the number 10 is to be for ever and ever,
bun generation to generation, the limit within shish all
ctls to enjoy—but beyond which every man is to be deprived
Ilia enjoyment of—the franchise! Certainly not. (Cheers.)
Ilse detest of tire bill—what would it procure ? 41
Myra—but not an interval of repose ;an intervsl of
tem; an interval of exploration, an Interval for thp woes..;
'fag of Mire Waimea which might possibly arise, 11,114 40 it_
the formidable dimensions d political danger. LA- the
ststhlhelishaddm be wile. and be wise in time.
rill through an unwise dallying—throonh any 1114Gb
3/141•4 el as fasoorable, believe;pighw
then& the hdlidoi•the
orerwordly, green& apprebeneions,refoathegrant-
dahoonshich, Isoninelyperseeded,ifgrinted now will
zenhill les * beeeNand in • spirit of gratitado—telleme)
'—end tend, not only to inseam the atteelemeed d the ,
=rs.to the institutions of the country, but to Its rulers.
. Let them not maven what is for their own ad-
Tattles* into an omission d danger and of eifl ; lout he
than, inregard to the dirty of the day and the promos's ed
the tattoo; rally round us and abssgthea us for the leek
which we have in hand. If they so rally round us, what-
ever diellealties lie is our way will soon be sureseorstei;
and*, nest time we Inset in twee now crowded lath, tti
will be to eceinstulate one another on the paining d Ibis
memos into law, and on the evident fruits which it may
lave bans espeoinee in the augmented eontentmont, ar. •
taahment, and *ally of the people.
The' right hon. gentleman then resumed his seat andad
ezethwdatio cheering.
On themsotioe of Mr. Bras, seconded by Mr. CHILTON.
4 petition to parliament in favour of the bill of the genre- •
meat wai Manhood* adopted. A vote of thanks was
passed to Mr. Obedseese, and losidig-seknowledged by the '
right hon. melanins ; and a dram vete booing been
passed to Br. Bloat far predates, the pees- -I'
noted shortlY before TO 'Veit - .

HANOVit-UltrAltn iioollB.—/08. (LoiredrontE)
IntLVirrON'S RLDINGa.---Kree (Longworth) Yelvertone
wheis thitortethe end adventures have ensiled the syne.
'pathy of many, and the curiosity of more, made her first
appearance in London sic reader lest night .t the above
rooms, before • large and fashionable audience. Her se-
lectione—takes entirely from Tennyson and Longfellow—
*emptied " Lothdey Hall," " The Key Queen," " Lsdp
'Clans Viers de Vero," "Excelsior," and peerages from
I " Hiawatha." AD those parts of the poems which book
- appeared to bear, upon the um of the reader, were
redesnesntly applauded. Mrs. Yelverton's qualificetkes
fee an eloattiaakt are • pleasing yoke and • very ex-
pressive face. Most persons who saw her for the Ant time
lest sight irers probably agreeably "Opened by her hand-
some appearance. We pommel this reading is only the
arse at • sesisa.
Tan 11=01=3=0 OF Pokreleorrs.—We hen*
thready stated that Mr, ocasav, Q.C.. arid M.P. far
Exeter, has maimed his appointments Recorder for the
borough of Portmeenth. The Twang has been Med up
by the promotion of Hr. Poulden, • barrister, who for
several years past has had considerable practice en the
Western circuit, and espeeidly at the quarter meadow for
that besisenle.
MIIIIIIESOIIND RAILWAYS SOX PArile.—A Perin
corresponded of the hodepeadoesce Miff says :—" Led
Saturday the directors of tire English Credit Mobilise sod
of the National Bank of London met in Paris together
with • large number of French and English engineers, in
oonnexion with the proposed underground railway in this
city. Only one point is said to have been settled at this
meeting, that of constructing all the lines parallel to the
course cf the fiedne."
The ROW. AcuremiT.—lt has been decided in
the Beryal Academy to premed with the elections sf
A.R.A.s without further delay, on Tuesday, the Bth of
Iday, the day alter the public is admitted to the exhibi-
tion ; six vacncies, the largest number yet known, which
have occurred during the unsettled date of the body, will
be filled up. No election he. taken place since those of
Meths. Leighton, Calderon, and R. R. Stephens in 18131.
Further emanate to the number of three in the list of the
B.A.s peeper will have to be filled up from that of the
A.B.A.s en as may opportunity ; we trust no long time
will elapse ere this is dale • thee three more rummies in
the lower grade will be created. The Academy is at pre-
sent at • strangely low ebb as regards numbers, the come-
quern of the unsettled state of its affairs. The bat of
worthy names from which thou of the new Associates are
to be selected is unusually larp, and represents Mame.
R. Armitage, V. Cole, IL W. B. Davis, R. S. Marks, G.
KUM, J. Pattie, F. Sandy., and others, besides • con-
siderable number of names which are less familiar to the
public ear.—Atheismn.
EIINXILAL OF TEN 'ATI Buy. JOHN ENVIX
Yesterday afternoon the mortal remains of the late Rev.
John Kehl° were interred in Horsley Churchyard, a parish
of which for nearly shirty years he had heel the viers To
do honour to his memory large numbers of distinguished
members of the University of Oxford made • journey to
Hursley, while clergymen came from all directions to lan
in the solemn amuses 7• the day. The Holy Communion
was administered to a considerable number of recipients at
eight o'clock, and at half-past eleven o'clock there were
matins in the beautiful church erected out of the posits II
" The Christian Year." At the aloes of this serene the
coffin was removed from the church to a tumble pave on
the south side of the west-end of the churchyard, the pan
being borne by six clergymen, all of whom hail been Mr.
Keble's curates. They were all habited in their sur-
plice'. Standing mound the ground when the coffin via'
lowered were—Dr. Paso; (who was to have performed the
servicubut who it is maid feared to undertake the duty),the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Brechin, Dr. Hook,
Dean of Chichester, the Rev. T. 8. Evans,
Vicar of Shore-
ditch, the Hon. Colin Lindsay, Sir William Heathoote.
Bert., M.P. Sir J. T. Coleridge, Mr. Butterfield, the
architect ofHorsley church, and a vast number of gentle-
men, lay and clerical, who are attached to the high church
party. The coffin was of plain oak, bearing • braes Oats,
on which were inscribed Mr. Keble's age (74), the day of
his death, and the amuranee which no one would di sputa.
In JIM obdormivit." The service at the grave yes per-
formed by the Rev. John William Richards, M.A., of
Corpus Mristi College, Oxford, formerly master of Maw
&ester High School, who aims 1859 bad acted as Mr.
Kehle's curate at Horsley. Seats bad been erected round
the churchyard for the villagers of Horsley and their
, all of whom were dressed in black. MIL
Miteels.not at Horsley, being sedately ill at Bourne-.
month, where Mr. Kehler died, indeed there is too much
reason to fear that his own death was hastened by the assi-
deonsiattention he had paid for some weeks past to hie
affiicted wife. The vicarage of }Lumley, which has become
vacant by Mr. Belle's death, is worth about 5501. a year,
and is in the gift of Sir William Heathoote, Bart, M.P. _
r
Lannon OP THE NORTIRTNIBIBLAND.-111 accord-
ance with institutions from the Admiralty • large numbe
of workmen were yesterday employed in the construction
of six lge ems& or pontoons, to be used,ed, with others
of the ar
same description, in another attempt to launch
the iron-clad steam -vend Northumberland at the next
high spring tides. In order to complete this work and
other powerful appliances in time for the renewed at-
tempt, relays of shipwright, carpenters, he., will be em-
ployed night and day. A number of workmen are also
(upland at the premier of the Mineral Ironworks Oone-
=Ls ma'am ever, lerroaration for the long-decked
,and as tee hydra- ulic prewar, at the bow of the
ship win be more powerful on the next oecuion, the tim-
bers upset which the ranee will work are being renewed,
and the firmest possible foundation made.
FATAL BOILZR EXPLOSION IN GLANORGAWSHIRE.
—The Owmfdin tin-works. near Swansea, have bun the
seined • terrible disaster. A steam boiler explosion km not
only masa • vast amount at danger to the works and the
expensive maddnery employed at them, but has also I+¢
lied the et the thdeitimate workman into eternity, and
caused severe injuries to four or five others. The works
belong to Mr. David Davies, and they give employment
fees more se three hundred thuds Owing to the obi-
AN* these will be thrown out ot employmeet, atom rate
fee • time, es the works will be brought to a -dill
until the damage to the machinery, ke., boa been repaired.
U is thoeglit that the maw loss to the tweemeter will he
' 2,5001., bet far more is the sad loss of Life which has
spud • mournful gloom over the neighbowirood.