The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

Bordeaux, the promoter of the enterprise of a line
of vessels between that place and Paris, of which
the Sole, now in the Seine, is the avant courier.
The French government has taken a step which
will excite surprise. It .has offered a command,
either at Rome or in the East, to General •de
Lamoriciere: The general, in replying to this
flattering inVitatiou, declared that in case of war
lie should place his services at the disposal of
France, either as a simple soldier or as commander
of any body .of.troops• that might be entrusted
him. This story, however improbable; rests on
the authority of Prince Napoleon, son of the ex-
King of Westphalia.

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) .
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.
TEE RECENT FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—The ad-
journed. inquest is to go on to-day, at Straffan. Meanwhile
the sufferers at Madame Stevens's Hospital are progressing
favourably. Miss Farrell, who had her leg broken, and was
otherwise seriously injured, has been removed by her friends,
and Miss Pack, has been pronounced out of danger: On the
other hand, to the names of those severely wounded have
been added those of Mr. Lowry, and his two sisters, from
Cumberland, and Mr. Bence Jones, of Clonakilty. 'The
Freeman's Journal gives the following further news : —" We
have learned some additional particulars, relative to the pro-
vidential escape of Mrs. Latham Blacker and her two
daughters, which is, perhaps, the most extraordinary inci-
dent connected with this sad disaster. This lady and her
children, occupied the coupe of the last carriage, which re-
ceived the first shock of the collision, and were therefore
placed in a position of danger from which escape seemed to
be utterly hopeless. Indeed, when one examined the coupe
in which they were sitting, and saw how completely it was
demolished—the whole of the seats being carried right into
the middle of the next compartment—it was difficult to con-
ceive how their lives could be preserved. The explanation
given by one of the railway officials renders the manner of
their escape intelligible, but increases our wonder and admi-
ration at the extraordinary mode by which they were saved
from instant destruction. The explanation is shortly this :
When the buffers of the goods' engine dashed against those
behind the coupe, the violence of the shock was .so great that
the carriage sprung up (to use the words of one of the wit-
nesses) 'as high as the wires of the magnetic telegraph,'
and falling on the engine, knocked off its funnel, and then
rested on the smoke box , in such a manner that the
Misses Blacker, who were seated next the doors at either side,
were thrown out upon the top of the ' smoke box,' where
they were subsequently.found lying in a state of insensibility,
but uninjured. Mrs. Blacker being seated nearer to the
centre of the coupe was more exposed to the force of the
concussion, and consequently received a compound frabture
of the leg. On enquiry at the Straffan station on Saturday,
where she still lies, we were informed that she passed a good
night, but has not yet been pronounced out of danger. She
has been attended by Surgeon Adams. We have already
mentioned the wonderful escape of Mrs. Barrington, who was
found crushed into a corner, and covered over with frag-
ments of the broken carriage when her husband came to
search. for her. It is stated that on hearing the frantic
shouts of the passengers who were on the embankment that
the goeds train was running into them, Mrs. Barrington fell
upon her knees for prayer, and this attitude alone saved her
life—the next moment the side of the compartment was
driven in with the utmost violence, and the seat opposite to
that which she had occupied was forced upwards in such a
manner as to form a covering and protection for her head.
Had she remained sitting this would certainly have struck
her on, the head or chest just in the same manner in which
several of the unfortunate passengers were killed. It is a
curious circumstance that the bracelets, reticule, and other
small articles which were on Mrs. Barrington's person when
the accident occurred were found lying amongst the dead
bodies."

ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY. —An accident of a serious nature, though most
providentially unattended with any fatal results to
human life, occurred this morning, about a quarter
of a mile below the Ballinasloe station. About seven
o'clock, a goods train from Dublin to Galway arrived at the
station: A great number of oxen that had been purchased
at the fair, when waiting in a field adjoining the line to be
sent on to Dublin. The noise of the train frightened these
animals and several hundreds of them rushed in a most
furious manner towards the line where a great gate, called
the Railway Gap, is situated. Against this gate they came
with tremendous force, and with the shock it burst open,
breaking the massive bars into splinters. Four of the in-
furiated animals got on the line just as the train was
passing, and, getting entangled in the wheels, were crushed

to death immediately, their carcasses being very much
mangled. Some of the waggons of the train were upset and
thrown off the line. The railway policeman, stationed at
the gate had a very narrow escape, having barely. time
to jump over a wall before the maddened animals had rushed
up. Had he not been very smart he would either have been
erushed and tianipled en by the beak*, ur driven by them
under the wheels of the train. No blame appears to be at-
tributable to any of the railway officials, as the gate was
shut, and the, man at his post.
MORE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A poor woman walking
on the line was knocked down and killed by an engine on
the Killarney Junction Railway the other day. At the
Ballinasloe station, on Saturday, Mr. Michael Morris, of
Galway, narrowly escaped death in a similar manner, he
fell across the rails when the train was coming up, and had
he not been pulled up immediately he would have been cer-
tainly killed ; as it was, he was severely cut about the face.

ECCLESIASTICAL INVESTIGATION.—the investigation into
the conduct of the Rev. Henry Somerville, vicar of Darer-
aile, who was accused of having denounced from the pulpit
some of his parishoners by name, was continued on Thurs-
day last. The Commissioners appointed by the. Archbishop
of Dublin, were, Archdeacon Rider, and the Rev M. Ald-
worth and Gabbett. These gentlemen, it appears, are very
angry that their former proceedings should have been made
public, on account of the scandal they may . bring on the
cloth, but.nevertheless, that has not prevented their ulterior
doings .from creeping into print. The charges against the
accuse& were for having been guilty of contumacy. and

disobedience in refusing to give to the Itei, Mr. Maginn, the
rural-dean, the customary account of his ministry, and having
behaved himself otherwise contumaciously and disobediently.
I The Rev. Mr. Maginn ns called on, and after expressing
a desire not to be examined, his evidence was taken. It
referred to the Rev. Mr. Somerville's manner of performing
service,. his refusing to give information to witness, necessary
for a visitation. Other witnesses were also examined as to
personalities and peculiarities in the Rev. Mr. Somerville's
manner of which they complained. When the evidence
was concluded, the Rev. Mr. Somerville requested to be
allowed to comment on it, but after some consideration, the
commissioners refused to' receive any statement from him,
unless made on oath. At this the reverend gentleman declared
himself much aggrieved, and would offer no evidence in his
own
.behalf, the commissioners will therefore now make
their report for the judgment of the Archbishop:of Dublin.

ATTE;IPTED SUICIDE.--The season appears' to be more
provocative of suicide than for many years, in Dublin. On
Saturday, a coach-maker named Fegan, made an attempt on
his life by hanging, and nearly succeeded in the effort. Ile
was, however, rescued and brought to Mercer's • hospital,
where he was resuscitated. Ile will be brought before the
magistrates to-day. -

LISBURN ELEjrroN.—lt is doubtful, at the eleventh hour,
whether there will be a contest or not; and although the
tory organs boast to have a majority of their friends on the
registry, they still, strangely enough, recommend their can-
didate not to stand.

COLLISION IN THE RIVER LEE.—The Cork Reporter
,of
Saturday gives the particulars of a collision which took place
in the river Lee, by which a lighter, containing forty tons of
wheat, was sunk, it having been run into by the Victoria
steamer off Monkston pier. It would seem that her Majesty's
name is not a very lucky one for ships. This is the third
vessel, it is curious to remark, bearing the name of Victoria,
or Victory, about which some calamity is reported .within
the last month. It will be remembered, too, that Victoria
was the name of the ill-fated steamer which went down with
sixty people at Howth at the beginning of the year:
DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY.—The proprietors of
'this well-paying little line held their half-yearly meeting
on Saturday. The six months' return showed a profit of
over £19,000, out of which a dividend of six per cent. on
the half-year was declared on the paid up capital, £275,000,
amounting to. £16,500. It is understood, although no
allusion was made to the fact at the meeting, that" this line
will soon become the property of Mr. Dargan, to whom
also belongs the nearl completed Bray railway. The
bargain hats been effected to prevent the injury.of both those
lines, by a greater competition than the shareholders might
like.

DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. In the city article of
to-day's Freeman, we find the following :—"A letter ad-
dressed to the shareholders of the City of Dublin Steam
Company has been published by Mr. Timothy Tyrrell, of
the firm of Tyrrell, Payne, and 'Lupton, the well-known
London solicitors. It is written in a most hostile spirit, and
apparently in the interest of the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way Company. He undertakes to show that a large portion
of the capital is already lost, and that the dividends are paid
out of capital ; but the figures, the only proof of the fact,
are not given. It is stated that they have been forwarded
to the directors, but, if the latter was well meant, they
ought have been given to the shareholders. We do not
think it our place to give an analysis of Mr. Tyrrell's letter,
which concludes with a promise to enforce the publication
of the shareholders' names, and restrain the payment of divi-
dends out of capital by proceedings in Chancery.. We have,
on a former occasion, expressed an opinion that.the position
of this great company could not suffer from a more complete
publication of the state of their affairs, and still . consider it
a matter of regret that an opening should be left for some of
the remarks now levelled against the management by the
writer in question, in consequence of the mystery in which
the state and progress of the company has been always in-
volved."

Miss Burdett Coutts has offered to contribute

£lOO towards a model lodging-house for families• in Dublin,
and a yearly donation of £5 to help to form an industrial
education school to be attached to it,—Dispatch,

MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL-YESTERDAY.

ADDRESS TO THE CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER.

Yesterday, at noon, a special meeting of the City Council
of Manchester, was held in
.the Council Chamber, " for the
purpose of considering the propriety of presenting an AD-
DRESS to the Right HonoUrable W. E. GIADSTONE, M.P.,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the occasion of his visit to
this city." There was a numerous attendance of the mem-
bers of the Council. His worship the Mayor, (ROBERT
BARNES, Esq.,) occupied the chair.

The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, said he took it
for granted that all the members of the Council were fully
acquainted with the object in view by their meeting together
that morning, as it was stated in the circular that had been
sent to each member of the Council. He had no doubt in
his'own mind, that there was but one opinion amongst them
as to the propriety of the course intended to be pursued, as
it would be impossible to. imagine that there could be a di-
versity, of opinion with respect to paying proper and becom-
ing honours to the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, on the occasion of his visit to this city. (Hear, hear.)
Those who were best acquainted with, the character of that
gentleman, were the best able to appreciate it, but he had
no doubt, that all who had seen his self-devotion and perse-
vering efforts to promote the public good, and to give gene-
ral blessings to this country, would, with one heart and mind,
agree that the Right Hon. gentleman was entitled to the
compliment proposed to be paid to him. (Cries of " hear
hear.") _ _ _

Mr. Alderman NEILD then rose and said : Having only
recently returned home after an absence of considerable dura-
tion,he gladly acknowledged that he received the circular
convening the meeting of that day, stating the object of
it, with very considerable pleasure. And it occurred to him,
on thinking of the object during his absence, that if the
Council of the city of Manchester omitted to discharge the
duty they were then met to carry out, it would have
been an omission which, in his opinion, most of them would
very much have regretted. (Hear, hear.) The circumstance
of paying respect to such a distinguished member of the
Government would not of itself have warranted the Corpora-
tion in taking the important step which he trusted they
were about to take. The members of the Council would not
take such a step merely for the purpose of flattering any
man—because he held a high and important official station
—(hear, hear.)—but the commanding talents—the high in-
tegrity of the Right Hon. Gentleman whom they proposed to
honour—the prominent place which he held in the Govern-
ment of which he was so distinguished a member, and his
high character—entitled him to their respect. (Hear, hear.)
And they would forget the honour that was due not only to
great talents, but*to great perseverance, if they omitted in a
suitable manner to express their approbation of his conduct.
(Hear, hear.) The Government of which that gentleman
was so distinguished a member, presented circumstances
perhaps—not perhaps, but *certainly—unknown before in the
history of our country. (Hear, hear.) Floated into power
as they were, if he mistook not, by the small majority of
nineteen, and having to grapple with difficulties in a
financial point of view, which many men pronounced it to be
impossible for them successfully to deal with, the members
of the Government sitting in the same House of Commons
carried those important measures which it was pronounced
an impossibility for them to carry. And, most extra-
ordinary to say, if he mistook not, they counted their majo-
rities, not by tens or nineteen, but by hundreds. (Hear,
hear.) The Right lion. Gentleman, in whose honour they
had met that day, told his friends in Scotland, a short time
ago, that the time when this country was to be governed by
party. was no more—(Hear, hear.)—and that it was great
principles, and not party by which we were in future to be
governed.' (Hear, hear.) And he (Mr. Alderman Neild)
said, it was a happy circumstance for them to live in times
like these. (Hear.) Whatever the principles and opinions of
that Right Hen. Gentleman, the facts to which he (Mr. Neild)
had called the attention of the Council, sufficiently de-
monstrated that the views of the Right. Hon. Gentleman
were perfectly true, and that it was great principles and
great principles alone that had actuated the men now at the
helm of affairs. But great principles, however excellent in
themselves, without the commanding talents of the Right
Hon. Gentleman now at the helm oeaffairs, would not be
sufficient to effect that which he had been able to accom-
plish. When the property . tax, was pronounced an impos-
sibility, when the succession tax, a tax in reference to
y
failed—when
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mons by the extraordinary talents of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, who when he rose was told that he was about to
attempt an impossibility,'but at whose sitting down the mea-
sures were in point of fact carried—was not evidence,
ample and complete, afforded of the statesman-like capa-
cities of the, Right Hon. Gentleman—(Hear, hear)—and
were they not bound to, pay respect to talent and
integrity such as he had displayed? (Hear, hear). He
thought they would ill deserve the situation which they pro-
fessed to hold as the representatives of this great commercial
district, if they did not in a fitting manner express to the
Right Hon. Gentleman that opinion of him which they felt
and entertained. (Hear). The talents of that gentleman,
and the talents of thoss with whom he had been associated,
were known to all. They had all of them watched with too
anxious an interest their course of conduct, not to be fully
aware of the merits they had displayed, and the obligations
the country was under to them. (ll,ear, hear). And as to
the difficult point with which they had now to deal, that of
peace or war, he for one felt perfectly convinced, that if an
honourable peace could be preserved, that peace would be
secured. (Hear, hear). But he thought they would all be
agreed, that when peace ceased to be honourable,it ceased to
be peace. (Hear, hear). These were difficulties in respect
of which, he for one reposed his confidence most unshakingly
in the Government, and he could not but rejoice, indeed,
that they had at the helm of affairs, men in whose judgment,
in whose integrity, and in whose ability they could so fully
depend. (Hear, hear). The circumstance, too, that was
about to take place, in associating the name of the Right
Hon. Gentleman with a name held dear to every English-
man, as the associate and the intimate friend of Sir Robert
Peel—the manner in which, in the important situation he
filled, the Right Hon. Gentleman carried out all the prin-
Ciples which Sir Robert Peel commenced—that was another
circumstance which entitled him to their distinguishod ap-
probation. (Hear, hear). And, further, when they looked
at-the undoubted talent of the Right Hon. Gentleman, when
they looked at his uncompromising independence, he
said there was much that must endear him to them. There
was another circumstanc °which must endear him to them—,
a circumstance which could not but endear him to them
as a man. When travelling in Italy in search of renewed
health, and meeting, as he did, with enormities in the way
of government, in the shape of oppression of every descrip-
tion—when he then ceased to regard that official reserve
common to men of high position, when he came forth and
denounced in the most unmistakeable manner that could
possibly be conceived, by his pen, the atrocities which he
witnessed—he (Mr. Neild) said that gave him the stamp of
a man, and to the high approbation, and high character,
which, he was sure, and which he felt every one around him,
in common with himself, would be sure, he richly deserved
at their hands. (Loud •eries of hear,hear.) It had been
his (Mr. Ncild's) lot on several occasions to be brought in
contact, in an official capaeitY, with the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, and the contrast between him and other gentlemen in
office, with whom he had been brought into contact, as to
official reserve, was of the most delightful and pleasing
character. The Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to depend
upon himself and his subject, -and upon that alone ; to him
the dignity and reserve of office appeared to be a matter of
no consequence. (Hear, hear.) He felt himself fully con-
fident that he could deal with. every subject, and he had con-
fidence in grappling with any statements that might be made
to him. These were matters that were extremely gratifying
to him (Mr. Neild) and the opinions which he had ventured
to express lie had heard borroborated by others. (Hear.)
Ho thought these were sufficient claims upon them to induce
them to confer upon the Right lion. Gentleman the honour
proposed, and he thought that if they failed to meet him
in the way the circular convening the meeting that day
announced, they would fail in a capital duty to themselves.
(Hear.) If they felt and appreciated great principles, and
esired to cultivate them, and if they.wished to give their
meed of applause to great talents. and integrity with which
those great principles were combined, they would com-
pletely forget their cluties:if they.did not do that which, as
a Council, he hoped they would do. (Hear, hear, hear.)
He begged to move that an address be presented to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the occasion of his visit to
this city.

Mr. Councillor ABEL HEYwoou said he felt very great
pleasure in being permitted to second the resolution as pro-
posed oy Mr. Alderman 'staid ; and in doing so, although he
cold not follow exactly the same train of thought as ex-
pressed by the mover of the resolution, yet he felt he must
say that in paying the compliment to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, which was then proposed to be done, that that
compliment was intended to be given to him principally for
the commercial views which he entertained, and the position
which he occupied as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
present ministry. (Hear, hear). . It could not be supposed
that the Council, composed as the Council was, couldbe called
upon to express unanimously their views in relation to that
gentleman's opinions upon other matters—political matters.
He said it could not be expected that the Council should ex-
press its opinion with regard to the political views which
that gentleman, either at present or previously, had enter-
tained ; but it could express an opinion, and that opinion a
strong one, in favour of the course which that gentleman had
taken as Chancellor of the. Exchequer, whilst he had been a
member of the present ministry. (Hear. hear). Not only, he
(Mr. Heywood) thought was one class of the population to
be thankful to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that
class the higher class, but there was another class which
that gentleman had taken into his consideration in the
Budget which he presented to the House of Commons. (Hear,
hear). For years a subject of some importance was repeat-
edly. brought before the attention of the government—of
previous governments—and it remained for the present
Chancellor of the Exchequer to solve the difficulty,
and to remove the obstacle altogether. That he had done most
suecesafull,y that to which he (11rs eywood) referred

was the abolition of the soap duty. The Chancellor of the
Exehequer also accomplished a boon, which one of the mem-
bers for Manchester had made it his particular duty, a part
of his particular duty, to bring regularly before the House
of Commons for several years. (Hear, hear, hear.) The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, seeing the feeling on the part
of the ministry, seeing also the force there was in the argu-
ments addressed, and the feeling there was throughout the
country on the subject, though he could with difficulty, as
Chancellor, spare the amount of money that was involved in
it, yet he had, with extraordinary ability, and temper also, so
conducted the business connected with the Budget as to take
off the advertisement duty. (Hear, hear.) That course, the
abolition of duties which press upon production, he (Mr.
Heywood), presumed was a great principle, which commer-
cial men in that district held to be advantageous to the
general good. (Hear, hear.) The abolition of protective
duties—the abolition of duties which prevent capital from
getting its fair share of play—and the apparent object of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to be to follow the
course recommended by Sir Robert Peel, in abolishing, as
nearly as possible, all duties that interfere with labour in its
production. (Hear, hear.) And the Chancellor must, as
circumstances enable him, remit the paper duty, a duty
which interfers hostilely with labour and capital throughout
the country : and that, he had no doubt, would be one of
the imposts which the Right Hon. Gentleman would contem-
plate removing ,when ever the financial position of the coun-
try might enable him to do so. (Hear, hear.) He said it
was not for them, as a Council, to refer particular or imme-
d. " 'he anb.n.a--4- •

-aately to the antecedents connected with the character of
the Right Hon. Gentleman (Hear, hear.) It was a matter
of great pleasure to them to find, that at the time
when Sir Robert Peel left the party with which he had been
connected for so many years, and adopted the free-4

policy—that one of the gentlemen who followed him, one of
the gentlemen who supported him, the principal mar
fact of the party, and who gave him extraordina,-. -
was the Right Hon. Gent.,the Chancell--
' Ravin,*

, near, near). ..cie tile party
with whom he had been conneetea for so many years, he had
adopted that commercial policy which the enlightened men
of the age had considered to be absolutely necessary for the
welfare and the glory. of this Country (hear,hear). As car-
rying out, then, the views of Sir Robert Peel, in connection
with the commercial policy of this country, the Council met
that day for the purpose of doing honour to the Right
Ron. Gent., the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Rear, hear).
And it was not so much an honour they did to the Right.
Hon. Gent., as an honour they did themselves in acknow-
ledging his great ability and high character. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Councillor llrrencoex most cordially supported the
proposition to present an address to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The motion was .then put from the chair and carried un-
animously amidst loud plaudits.
On the motion of Mr. Alderman WILLERT, seconded by
Alderman Sir Jonx Porran, the mover and seconder of the
resolution, together with Mr. Alderman Shuttleworth, Mr.
Alderman Hopkins, Mr. Alderman Bancroft, were appointed
a committee to draw up the address, and to do so, they
retired into an adjoining room. _

On their retain, the Towist CLERK read the address
proposed for adoption.

Mr. Alderman SnurrnEwon= said, he rose for the pur-
pose of moving the adoption of the excellent address which
the Town Clerk had just read, and he did so with the most
intense delight. He believed that the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, to whoin it was proposed that that address should be
presented, was the ablest Chancellor- of the Exchequer
that this country had ever known. (Hear, hear,) To him
(Mr. Shuttleworth,) it had appeared most extraordinary
that any gentleman should, in one session of parliament,
so completely have overcome the difficulties which had here-
tofore been considered indispensable, of introducing a
scheme of financial arrangement in this country, which was
consistent with principle, and which from its being admi-
rably contrived in connection with' that consistency, so as
to prevent that bickering and contention, that state of
conflict with regard to our system of taxation, which had
impeded for many sessions of parliament, recently the
public business of the • country. He believed that all the
points referred to in the address were just the points which
it was desirable should be brought under the notice
of the Council, as characterising the policy of the
Right Hon. Gentleman to whom the address was to be pre-
sented. (Hear hear) There were circumstances in the public
career of Mr. Gladstone, which he thought entitled him in
the fullest manner to the respectful admiration of this com-
munity. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Gladstone had achieved, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, objects and results which he
(Mr. Shuttleworth) believed the community at largo-did not
expect to see so soon accomplished. With reference to one
of the points alluded to, and that was the extension of the
system of legacy duties in thislcountry to property of every
description, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer hail
done that which, as the address stated, the great Pitt failed
to accomplish on the first introduction of the legacy duty in
17.96, and which he (Mr. Shuttleworth) believed no other
Chancellor of the Exchequer, nor any other public man, had
contemplated as a practical alteration in our system. (Hear,
hear). The Right Hon. Gentleman stated the case with an
ability, which he (Mr. Shuttleworth) believed reconciled
those who were most interested in preventing the extension
of the legacy duty to real propriety ; and he carried that
great measure with less opposition, because he placed it
before the country in such a manner as to she w the injustice
of existing arrangements, and in this way he evaded the op-
position of those most interested in preventing the measure
from becoming law. He approved of the measure of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, by which the Income Tax was
extended to Ireland. (Hear, hear). He concurred in all the
compliments which had been paid to the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, and in the aspirations breathed as to his future career.
and in all the hopes and confident trust, that, by his great
exertions in behalf of the interests of the community, they
might see cause to speak of him hereafter, as one of those
to whose intellectual power and personal virtues, they owed
a great deal of their prosperity and happiness. (Hear, hear,
and cheers).
Mr. Alderman HOPKINS said, it was with very great
pleasure to himself that he rose to second the resolution.
And in saying that he felt a satisfaction in rising to second
the address, it was partly from the consideration that there
could not well be any opposition to it. Ile believed it was
a subject respecting which they felt all alike—they were
unanimous, he believed, upon the point. (Hear, hear). He
thought that as a body, and as representing the public gene-
rally, they did right to seize opportunities of paying due
respect to all eminent public men when they came amongst
them. (Hear). He thought that in our popular state, in
the state in which we now were governed in a great degree
by public opinion, it was right and proper that the public
in various shapes, should speak to !public men and let them
know what were the feelings that pervaded the com-
munity. Respecting the particular measures brought for-
ward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently, it was
an extraordinary thing to say that, labouring in that depart-
ment, he should have given almost universal satisfaction —a
department in which it was said to be difficult for a man to
give general satisfaction, much less universal. When they
considered the difficulties of the position of the Right Hon.
Gentlemen, he thought the language of the address was fully
warranted as to the manner in which he proposed and car-
ried his measures. (Hear, hear.)
Mr Councillor Ginn had great pleasure in giving his coil-
' dial vote for the resolution. And he thought if anything
could add to the value of the address proposed to be pre-
sented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it must be the
knowledge of the fact that it proceeded from gentlemen
holding all shades of political opinions, which they sank in
paying him the compliment under consideration. He had
no doubt that any representation coming from a city occu-
pying so commanding a position in the country, would re-
ceive due consideration at the hands of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. •
The resolution was carried unanimously.

Alderman Sir JOHN- Porrza moved the next resolution, to
the effect that his Worship the Mayor be respectfully re-
quested to make arrangements for the presentation of the
address to the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. He said it was a very great gratification to him
that he was permitted to take an humble part in the pro-
ceedings of that day. It was a somewhat singular circum-
stance that while two years ago, on that day, the Corporation
of Manchester and the citizens of Manchester were called
upon to express their unanimous and enthusiastic loyalty to
our gracious Sovereign' they were to-day assembled, as the
Council of Manchester, to express their unanimous approba-
tion of the conduct of one of England's statesmen, and that
they.were enabled to do so without the slightest diference of
opinion being expressed, or any opposition being raised on
the ground of its being a party question. (Hear, hear). He
thought it a satisfactory evidence of the spirit of the times,
when they could all join together, throwing aside all minor
differences of opinion, and when they could all join together
in recognising undoubted worth, and in offering. their
thanks to an individual who had been mainly. instru-
mental in carrying out the policy of the late Sir *Robert
Peel. He rejoiced they could do so without any difference
of opinion or party asperity. Had this been in any
way a party question, he could scarcely conceive it would
have been the duty of the Council to take a part in reference
to the proposition made that day—but such was not the
case. Believing
.that tho Chancellor of the Exchequer had
done more to maintain the great principles of Sir Robert
Peel, than perhaps any other statesman during the last ses-
sion of parliament; he thought it was most gratifying that
the Council could meet where they were then assembled in
the discharge of their . public duties, and unanimousiy ex-
press their feelings of gratification in including the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer amongst them. (Hear, hear, hear.)
Mr. Councellor AnsunAD seconded the resolution, which
was carried nem con.
A conversation followed as to whether the members of the
Town Council should wear their robes, on the occasion of
the inauguration of the statue to Sir Robert Peel, on Wed-
nesday.
It was announced that the Mayor and the Town Clerk
would wear their robes, but it was left to the discretion of
the Councellors generally, either to wear their robes, or
appear in their ordinary costume.
The Council broke up at two o'clock.

THE . REPRESENTATION OF WlNuson.—On Satur-
day it was currently reported at Windsor, that Lord Charles
Wellesley is about to resign his seat for the royal burgh. The
leaders of both parties within the borough are making active
Arrangements to meet-the probable contingency, • -