The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-31 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1866.

they have heard it before, and will pay no of the Camara. (Renewed applause.) There were Kemble and
attention to it. They will see your people leaving Kinglake, the historian of our earliest civilization and
DUBLIN, TrinEIDAT Morn. your shores and they will think it no calamity to the of our latest war-Kemble, uinteresting an individual as
Mr. Bright, having accepted the invitation of a
country ; they know that they have force to suppress in- ever was pourtmyed by the dramatic genius of his own
number of his political friends and admirers to visit the surrection, and therefore you can gain nothing from their race ; Kinglake, as bold a man at arms in literature as
sister kingdom, was entertained this evening at • grand fray' (Cheers.) Well, what is your hope then ? It ever confronted public opinion. (Laughter and applause.)
banquet in the Rotunda- The CYD°66°Bull presided, and is in a better parliament, representing fairly the There was Yenables, whose admirable writings, unfortu-
was supported by Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. Pilate, Nl._ United Kingdom. (Cheers.) The movement which nately anonymous, we are reading every day without
Mr. Bagwell. m.p.. Captain White, hi.p., Mr. Lawson, is now in force in England and Scotland knowing to whom to attribute them ; and there was
81. P., Lite Attoraey•General for Ireland ; Mr. Sullivan, is your movement as much as ours.' If there were 100 Illakealey, honorary canon of Canterbury, the Hertford-
M.P., late Solicitor-General for Ireland ; Sir Column more members the representatives of large and free consti. shire Incumbent of the Timex. There were sons of families
O'Loghlen, M.P. ; Serjeant Armstrong, M.P. ; Mr. Baring, tuencies then your cry would be heard, and the people which seemed to have an hereditary
Y.P. ; Mr. Tristram Kennedy, M.P. ; Dr. O'Brien, Dela right to, • Dort
would give you that justice which • class have so to of habit of, academic distinction, like the Heaths
of Limerick ; Sir D. O'Brien, M.P. ; and Mr. Blake, M.P.
denied to you. The great party that is now in power, and the Lushingtone But I must check this throng of
There were also present several dignitaries ands consider.
the tory party, denies that I have any just cause of com- advancing memories, and I will from this • t with
able number of the clergy of the Roman catholic church.
Covers were laid for 500 person,. Letters were plaint in • speech delivered the other day in Belfast. the mention of two names which you would not let me
There is much said of the enforcement of the law, but omit-one of them-that of your professor of G k-
read from Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, there is nothing said about any change or amendment of whom it is the honour of her Majesty's late government to
the law. With the English party terror is the only specific, have made Master of Trinity-(loud applause)--and the
the Archbishop of Cashel, the Bishop of Meath, the
and they have no confidence in allegiance, except where otherthatof yourlatestprofeseor, Mr. F. Maurice-(renewed
Bishop of Kerry, the Bishop of Limerick, the Axchbishop
of Tuam, &c., &c. Cardinal Cullen's letter, which was there is no ability to rebel. I believe that at the root of a applause)-in whom you will all soon recognise the true
addressed to the gentlemen forming the Bright Banquet general discontent there is in all countries &general grievance enthusiasm of humanity, and upon whom this university has
and • general suffering. The surface of society is not in- conferred a far greater' favour than any that honours
Committee, was as follows : . cessantly disturbed without • cause. I recollect in the or emoluments can give, an expanded sphere of usefulness,
55, Eccles street, Oct. 18.
poem of the greatest of Italian poets, he tells us that he saw and the extension of moral -(Continued ap-
Gentlemen,-I beg to return you many thanks for the
kindness with which you have invited me to meet Mr. in • vision the Stygian lake, and standing upon its banks please.) Of these men, all,`Y
I believe, were members of
Bright at dinner on the 30th instant. In common with the he observed • constant commotion that there was on the the Cambridge Union Society, and most of them active
majority of our fellow citizens, I feel that Ireland owes • surface of the pool ; and the guide explained it to him participants in its debates, and I would ask you to draw
great debt of gratitude to that distinguished statesman. thus : This too for certain knave, that underneath the from this the moral that it is well that. the pnrposss
His eloquent denunciation of inveterate abuses his cou-
rse in asesiling that ecclesiastical asoendan4y which waters aMaltitude whew tights into these tabbies !of thisamiety should not be conieed merely to its own
'WI& Wood lay feweign arms en this country, and umire =see heave as thine eye tells thee, where•soe'er immediate objects, but that it should be regarded as an
-elsialt for centuries has Payed upon its vitals, it turns. And so in Ireland for generations back the miseries ' addition and eucoedaneum to the ordinary studies
WA exertions to obtain protection and encourage of the people have made them sigh, and found 'of the university. The majority of these men won your
meat for the oppressed tenants, and hie efforts
their voice in constant insurrection and disorder.: highest honours, and at the
to place those who have been so long trodden down by same time were the
persecuting laws on a footing of equality with every ekes I have said that Ireland is •• country of many wrongs and ' best speakers in the Union. There was one exception.
of their countrymen, have gained for him the affection of many sorrows. Her past has almost all been in the shadow, ,Then was one man, the • grestest speaker I think I ever
• warm-beartedssople who are grateful for any services her present is haw • and peril. Her future depends ; heard, a man with the strongest oratorical gift, • man of
that are rendered to them. Feeling as I do, I would be s
on the power of her people to substitute equality and ;the name of Sunderland, who only lives in the memory of
ham to Join_ in your manifestation of gratitude for the
bernoin already rendered by Mr. Bright to this Wank justice for supremacy, and a generous patriotism for the ,hit own generation, and for this reason, that he was only
wire it not that other engagements render it impossible spirit of faction. In the effort now making in England to known at the Union' at Cambridge. Perhaps the solo
f lee to accept your invitation. Hoping that everything create a emir
*esso
messed according terror desires I remain, with greatrepresentation of the people yon have the ' record of him is the prize declamation' which be delivered
, r deepest Interest. (Hear, hear.) The people never wish 'in Trinity Chapel, in the year that I performed the
, your devoted servant, I
to suffer and never wish to inflict injustice same function. I remember now with a certain shame
PAUL CAZDINAL CULLitt. They have no sympathy with the wrongdoer, whether in i a kind of hope that I entertained that the first
The baelth of the (Nem, ke-, hawing been drunk, The Great Britain or Ireland, and when they are fairly repo. I prize which was so undoubtedly due to his rare
O'Doseetnee proceeded to propose " The people, the emu,' ha the one i o
im •
trso iseras of political power," and afterwards "Our day_they
will
.y, • I hope they willoratorical faculty would be lost to him on account of the
effectively, and finally answer that extreme violence of the politics, and the curious heretical
peel, Aka Bright." old question of the parliament of Kilkenny, " How comes nature of his essay ; but somehow or other the college for
Mr. in." "Tateeeced his speech by narrating the it to peen that the King has never been the richer for got all the moral demerits in the intellectual excellence of
cinemas., under which this visit to Ireland was paid, Inland !is that production, and I cams off only second best. It was
showing 441 it bad been is • measure forced upon him. ,
The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and 1 in company with Mr. Sunderland and Arthur Hallam that
Her effilia tribute to the late Mr. Dillon, he proceeded
prolonged cheers. - • 1 I formed part of a deputation sent from the Union of
to ego*, ow the means- by which the condition of the ...
Mr. . KININILDT, M.P., next proposed the health of the ! Cambridge to the Union of Oxford, and what do you think
people of Berland may be improved and their disposition •
eltaarmani to which the O'Bormoutz responded. I we went about! Why we went to assert the right
towards Regis* changed. He than combated the theory
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of " A Speedy ; of Mr. Shelley to be considered a greater poet than
that ,the_•,aentlition of Ireland was prevented from '
Settlement of the Land Question, on the fundamental ! Lord Byron. (A laugh.) At that time we at Cambridge
being as ellerfactery as that of England or Soot-
principles of property, securing the rights of the tenant ' were all 'may full of Mr. Shelley. We had printed his
land by
to radical defect in the Irish charac-
and the interests of the landlord;" to which " Adonais " for the first time in England, and a friend of
ter. With tegard to the popular church is Ireland,
Mr. letowsia, M.P., responded. oars suggested that, as Shelley had been expelled from
no clam of men had a deeper iatereet in a pre,- 1
worm mix timarooc community than the
print.. There Sir J. GRAY, ILI'. for Kilkenny, proposed "Civil and Oxford and greatly illtreated, it would be a very grand
thing for us to go to Oxford and raise • debate upon his
wasin Ireland a emstant war between the owners and the • iteligi°" LiberSY'''
I Other toasts followed, and the proceedings, which were character and powers. So with the full permission of the
wailers oftltA ariii. It was a land in which there was . .
a protracted to • very late hour, were brought to a close. authorities we went to Oxford-in those days a
gentense a wrong-one in which all the principles of
the to tiatiritad been experimented upon, and had 1 _..-G dreary postchaise journey of ten hours-and
failed-failed net only at home but in the enemies it had ' THE NEW BUILDING OF THE CAMBRIDGE we were hospitably entertained by a young student of the
; UNION SOCIETY.
created far anal ainither continent. Asking his audience name of Gladstone-(load cheers)-who, by the bye, has
to try . with dint.see discover the oauses of this I —ea--
Yesterday afternoon the new building which himself since been expelled. (Much laughter.) We hod every
interesting debate, one of the principal speakers in which,
state of this ik the hon. gentleman continaed-I •
rshall aid( you your eyes to two points. The has been erected in Cambridge for the accommodation of who reminded Inc of the circumstance, is now an arch.
first is the church, and the second is 'the Union Society was opened by the Earl of Pow 's, the bishop of the Roman catholic church, but we were very
much shocked, and our vanity was not a little wounded, to
I the land. • The .- h may be said to affect the i Lord High Steward, in the presence of the 'Vice-
soul and eentkilhie. the country, and the land the 'Chancellor of the University, most of the heads of find that nobody at Oxford knew anything about Mr.
Shelley. In fact, a considerable number of our auditors
1 Mani of Bring . the comfort of the people, houses and professors, a crowded assemblage of mem'
(Cheers.) I shall talt e the bishops and clergy of the ben of the University, both graduates and undergraduates; believed that it was Shenstone, and said that they only
established chunk; • Uwe may be, I doubt not, many and last, though not ?east, as many ladies as could be knew one Pwni of his, beginning, my ban" are an
. This buil, which has been furnished with bees." (Laughter.) We hoped, however,
amongst them piona;anditidevoted men, who labour to the accommodated with seats ding
that our spostolate was of some good, and I have no doubt
utmost of their peal, 4 do good in the districts which erected after the designs of Mr. Waterhouse, the architect
are committed t 6 tiAlenharge ; but I venture to say that, of the Manchester law courts, is situated near the that the excellent president of the Union at Oxford will
If A wig. sobd aigt ;in „mu lA.", it would not, in a . jawdde„f meidgewamet and Trinity-street, behind now tell you that the poetry of Shelley is just as much
the Round Meech. " Ile style is thireematt can-
national point of view, compensate for the one fatal error and widely appreciated at Oxford as at Cambridge. The
reference to toe interest which we took in this literary
of their existence as ministers of an established protestant tury. Gothic, but in the matter of windows and some
question reminds me that on looking over the late records
church in Ireland. (Cheers.) Every wan of them is other trifling particulars this has not been strictly adhered
necessarily in his district a symbol of the supremacy of the to. The exterior of the edifice is chiefly of red brick, but of this society Ido not find the mention of a single
literary debate. You seem so absorbed in politics that
few and of subjection by the many of the people ; both Cestetton and Kelton stone has been employed with
you have no time for literature. Will you ',cr-
awl although the amount of the revenue of good effect for purposes of ornamentation. The principal
mit me humbly to suggest that you inlay coin-
the established church as a sum payable as room is of course the hall, which is intended to be occupied
bine the two - (applause)-and that it will be
a tribute by • whole nation may not be tonal- for the purposes of debate-a handsome apartment, sixty
well for you, and will afford an agreeable variety, if some
derable, yet, bear in mind that it is often the feet long by forty-five feet wide, having round three sides
of your debates are of a literary character. In my time
galling of the chain that is Inure tormenting than the an elegant gallery for the acconunodation of ladies ; but
we were certainly much more forced upon these subjects
weight of it. I believe that the removal of the established the building also contains (besides offices, committee room,
than you are ; because by a limitation, I do out know
church would create a new political and social atmosphere lavatories, Re.) a library, writing mom, meg:seine room,
whether of our own imposing or required by the authori-
in Ireland ; that it would be felt by the people that the smoking room, and a "tile room," devoted to the recep-
we were not allowed to discuss any political subject
old things had pegged away, and that all things had be- • tion and preservation of back numbers of newspapers and 6°4
later than the beginning of the present century --
opine new ; that the Irishman and his faith was no longer periodicals. These several rooms are all plain but com-
(laughter)-so we got fervent upon the character of
to he condemned in his own country ; and that for the sortable apartments, and appear to be well suited to the
Lord North, and fierce upon the policy of Cor-
tina time Irishmen would fully believe that English several puri,oses to which they are to be appropriated.
dinal Richelieu. (More laughter.) Although you no doubt
people and the English parliament intended to de The ceremony of yesterday took place in the De think this very barbarous it bad its advantages. After
justice to their country. (Cheers.) Now I leave bating-hall. All the floor space was occupied by the
sonic further remarks, the noble lord concluded by saying :
the church and come to the question of the laud. members of the society or their friends ; and the gallery
The grand evil in Ireland is thin: that the Irish was, notwithstau ding the wetness of the afternoon, filled -Make this noble room a worthy arena of your young
ambitious, teaching you to respect your brother
people-the nation-are dispossessed of the soil. 'What with ladies.
we ought to do is to provide aid for their Thu Earl of Ponta having declared the building for-
and to respect youreelvte ; teaching you to tolerate
even the intolerant ; place this edifice under the tutelary
restoration to it by all measures of justice. Wby orally opened, protection of good nianners and good sense, and no one
should you tolerate in Ireland the law of primogeniture! Lord Hout..nrnS lose to deliver an inaugural address'
will ever find fault with the Cambridge Union Society.
Why should you tolerate the system of entails and long and was, received with loud and prolonged acclamation',
(The noble lord resumed his seat amid loud and protracted
settlements! Why should the object of the law be to He said : -My Lord l'owis and Gentlemen,-`Then I ac-
cheering.)
accumulate land in great masses in few bend., and to cepted your kiwi invitation to appear here to-day, and say eeri
make it almost impossible for persons of small means and a few words in inauguration of your new hall of debate, it Professor F.twcy.rr, M.P., who was very well received,
tenant farmers to become possessors of land ! If you go would have been well if I had recollected an rose to move a vote of thanks to Lord Houghton, for his
to other countries-for example, to Norway, to Denmark, anecdote which I have read somewhere about Goethe, admirable, eloquent, and interesting address.
to Holland, to Belgium, to France, to Germany, to the great German poet. When he was in his maturity The Rev. W. Awi pia, the president of the Oxford Union
Italy, or to the United States, you will find that in all a young man Caine to him, and asked him to explain the Society, in briefly seconding the motion, said that there
those countries three laws of which I complain meaning of a pas.,age in Faust. Goethe replied, " Why I were now two or three copies of Shelley's works in the
have been abolished-(cheers)-and the Lend is do you curie to me? You with your youth are ten times library of that society, and he believed that they were as
just as free to buy and sell, and hull, more likely to understand what I meant than lamin my ; much read as they would be at Cambridge.
and cultivate as any other description of pro. maturity." And thus, gentlemen, if you do not inspire me The vote of thanks was carried unanimously, and
perty in the kingdom. No doubt your Landed Estates with sumethieg of your youthful ardour-it may be with Lord liouotteoe in acknowledging it said -You have
Court and your Court of Titles Act were good measures, something of your youthful audacity-(a laugh)-I do not done what hitherto I should have believed to have been im-
but they were good because they were in the direction know bow I can justify your choice or expnas my grati- possible, you have given rue an additional interest in the
that I want to travel further in. I would go further than tulle. For now, aft-r this distance of time and in this University of Cambridge. (Cheers.)
that, I would deal with the question of absenteeism. dieeituilitude of circumstances, it is impossible for me to I Professor Sei.wvet, in s humorous but rather lengthy
i('heers.) lam not going to propose to tax en absentee ; appeal to the power of association. The :I, ,ales blei entirely I address, proposed a vote of thanks to Lord Powie and the
but if my advice were taken we should have a paths- fails me. This is not my Cambridge Union. My Cam. other visitors for their attendence.
mentary commission empowered to buy up the large estates bridge Union was a low, ill-ventilated, ill-lit, apartment,
Lent E. Flii.M.triticE, the president of the Cambridge
in Ireland belonging to the English nobility, for thu at the back of the Red Lion Inn-cavernous, tavernous-
U nion Societe, seconded the motion. He expressed his
purpose of selling them on proper terms to the occu- (laughter)-something between a commercial room and
great gratification at the presence of the Vice-Chancellor,
piers of the farms, and to the tenantry of Ire- a district branch meeting-house. (Much laughter.) How
who had thus put the stamp of the university's rip-
lane. (Cheers.) Now let me be fairly under- can I compare it with this superb building, these commo-
prove! upon these proceedings, and acknowledged
stood. I am not proposing to take any of their pro- dious apartments, these, perhaps, over luxurious'applies-
the assistance which the Aociety had received in the form
perty from them, hut I propose this, that a parliamentary tions of architecture which you will have to enjoy But I
of advice from many of the senior members of the univer-
commession should he empowered to treat for the purchase remember that those old an•l humble walls had at the
sit and and also the obligations they were under to Mr.
of these large estates, with a view of selling them out to time I first entered them just ceased to echo voices which
Waterhotuse, the architect.
the tenantry of Ireland. Here are sonic of them. The England will not willingly let die. The strange irony of
The resolution having been carried without a diesen.
present l'rime Minister (Lord Derby), the Marquis of destiny, which so often strikes exactly those whose long I bent voice,
Lansdowne, Lord Fitzwilliern, the Marquis of Hertford, life we should imagine most needed for the welfare of
Lord Powis thanked the committee on the part of the
the Marquis of Bath, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of mankind, has already taken away from us Macaulay, a
ladies for not having adopted the practice of the House
Devonshire, and many others, have large estates in Ire- great historical orator and oratorical statesman-(hovel
of Commons, and condemned them to the conventual
land. Many of them, I dare say, are just as well applause) ; Freed, that perfect master of light and social
seclusion of a, grated ill end took ion to express
managed as any estates in the country ; but what verse ; Charles Buller, whose young statesmanship you his
tisf t' nat theg' eserynce of the Vice-Chancellor. He
you want is to restore to Ireland a middle proprietary of will see recorded in Westminster Abbey, but whosej
la declareda lo
the meeting airourned until eight o'clock in
then ttemeetlng inder.
the soil, and I venture to say that if these estates could charm of character and talent belong to the domain of per-tint the society
the evening, when it was u . .
be purchased, and could be sold out farm by farm to the tonal regard, and John Sterling, whose tumultuous spirit
would meet to discuss the relative merits of the late and
tenant occupier in Ireland, it would be infinitely better and lofty character still live, and will long live in the '
resent &dmt'niatra • tione •
in a conservative sense than that they should belong to biographies of Hare and Carlyle. (Renewed applause.) p
great proprietors living out of the country. I have said By Int was cast with a somewhat later generation, and I
that the disease is desperate, and that the remedy must must beg you to pardon the affection and the pre-
be searching. I assert thatthe present system of government Felice with which I am inclined to believe that
with regard to the church and with regard to the the members of that generation were for the wealth
land has failed disastrously in Ireland. Under it Ireland of their promise, a promise in most cases per-
has become an object of commiseration to the whole world, featly fulfilled, a rare body of men such as this
and a discredit to the United Kingdom of which it forms a university has seldom contained. I speak not here or
part. It is eland of many sorrows. Men fight for supre- eminence in the especial studies of the place, in classics of
ntacy, and call it protestantism. They fight for evil mathematics, though I cannot omit the names of our
and bad laws, and they call it acting for the de. respected chancello:, the Duke of Devonsh're-(apPlause)
fence of property. Now, aro there no good men -but you will permit me to recall some names dear to
in Ireland? Of those who are opposed to us in politics myself, and many of them familiar to you all. There was
are there none who can rise above the level of party! If Tennyson-(cheers)-the laureate, whose goodly bay tree
there be such I wish my voice might reach to them. I decorates our language and our land ; Arthur, the younger,
have often asked myself whether patriotism is dead in Ire- Hallam, the subject of "In 31etnoriam," the poet and his
land. Cannot all the people of Ireland see that the calami- friend passing linked band in hand together down the
ties of their country are the creations of the law? amid if that slopes of fame. There was Trench, the present archbishop
be so, just laws only can remove those calamities. If the Irish of Dublin, and Alford, dean of Canterbury, both profound
were united, if your 105 members were for the most part scriptural philologists, who have not disdained the secular
agreed, you might do almost anything you liked, even in muse. (Applause). There was Spedding. who has, by • phi-
the present parliament; but if you are disunited, then I losophical affinity, devoted the whole of his valuable life to
know not how you can gain anything from • par- the rehabilitation of the character of Lord Bacon ; sad
liament created as the Imperial Parliament now there was Merivale, who, I hope by some attraction of
ia. The class that rule will hear your cry, as repulsion, has devoted so much learning to the vindication

MR. BRIGHT IN DUBLIN.

FUNF.RIL OF 3ln. Bustn.Ev.—The funeral of Mr. 11
John Gilbert Bradley.
scholar of New College, Oxford,
who was drowned in the Isis on Wednesday last, took
place yesterday afternoon in the St. Cross Cemetery, Holy.
well. The burial service was partly read in the chapel of
the college, from whence the body was conveyed to the
grave, followed by his father and brothers as chief
mourner., and 100 members of the University. The war-
den, Dr. Sewell, and Dr. Barry, head master of Chelten-
ham College, from whence the deceased was elected to
New College, read the service conjointly.
Etr.4*TION COMMISSIONS.—The Reigate commis-
sion met again yesterday, and amongst the witnesses
examined was Mr. G. W. G. Leveson Gower, M.P. He
detailed his experience as a candidate at Reigate, and
said that the thing that astonished him most was the ex-
traordinary bills sent in by tavern keepers. The commis-
sion again adjourned. At Totnes a multitude of wit-
nesses deposed that they had not received bribes at the
last election. Several of them added that they had
money offered to them. One stated that he had 1501.
offered for a haystack which was worth about 30/. ; and
a watchmaker, who refused to take money for his vote,
stated that the gentleman who mad* the offer bought two
gold watches and chains to match from him. He sold
the watches at the usual price. Another adjournment
took place.