The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

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[STAMPED 11. .11)1)11'10N kL.]

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ONE PE NTNY:

TER ItiPRESENTATION OF WEBT.IIINOTSII.

Last night Captain Grosvenor and Mr. Mill
again appeared before their ootutituenta at the Piinsieo-
ream, Warwick-street.

The CRIMEAN (Dr. Brewer) read the following letter
from Mr. °ketone :
" 11, Carlton-house-terreoe, July 21, 1968.
"Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your beer of
yesterday, and to express my regret that I shall be cable
to tatted the meeting on Friday evening, which
it is proposed to hold on behalf of Messrs. Gra-
v ear and Mill as candidate for Weetininsier.
Allow me, however, to enure you of my lively
kens& in their cause ; and this, not only on their own
meant, but for the dignity and credit of the City of
Waritimar,--ncor invited, as I understand, to arias
L Meet the other other members, both of whom, in rewire*
habit from it, have done it honour. I has not a
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wadi it' amen* Mr. Smith in any capacity, magpies
fa Iffestanster : and against him in dist
mama, I add my • good Ninny words, for I am am-
, silted with year setalrepreeentatives in a goodand great
eines, the paresis of which it is his purpose to impede.
Dot I would rather 'peak of our present ambers.
Captain Grosvenor, who wee first recommended to ne Ag
the connection of his fannly with the city, and by the
makl and deserved respect in which they embark hoe
shown himself to be an able and faithful representative,
whom his academes might well have chosen
from hie personal merits ad ibEities alone. Of i (
Mr. Mill, who has attained • world-wide fame, It
would he almost impertinent in me to speak the
lensaage of *elegy. Yet I will venture on two mese-
time, both having anclusive refereace to his partakes- •
tag career. Firm in the maintenance of hie 011111
Agiaices, Mr. Mill has ever exhibited the largest toed-
-genie for timed others ; and wilt this liberal takes
of differences, he baa shown in the most remaelehle
meaner bow to reconcile, on the one hand, a thorough
independence, and, on the other, an enlightened sense of
the value and poner of that kind of oaks
Which is designated by the sae of political party.
More than this, Mr. Mill has set as all a rare example of
ergiving temper, of forgetfulness of self, of absolute
devotion to public duty, and I do not hesitate to express
I my deliberate opinion that his presence in the Howe of
Commons has materially helped to raise and =stain its
morel tone. I ask your pardon for having been led to
greater length than I had intended, and I remain, sir,
your faithful servant, " W. E. °unease."
Cajtan Oacievintox, after some preliminary observa-
tions, said neutrality m polities wee impossible after
what bad recently occurred in parliament. Indeed, be
defied any man who had set in this parliament to say he
was not a political partizan. On the one side
there were selfishness, clamour, and trickery ;
on the other honesty, forbearance, and states-
manship ; so that partizanship became imperative, and
winkling impossible. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gene:-
man then referred to the fact of a conservative candidate
hag in the field, and his observations respecting the
deputation that had waited upon Mr. Smith, at the West-
minster Palace Hotel, caused some diment, expreasioni of
which coins from a dam or so of Voices. The bon. and
gallant' gentleman continued to meek amid some hike►
ration. until the police ejected the disturber.
Mr. Mira met with an enthusiastic reception. , He said
that during the last two or three weeks he and his col-
la been engaged several days in each week,
and latterly two or three days in succession, in endeareer-
ing to prevent the elestors of Weekender andthronghont
the country being given over intothe hands of Millionaires
—and they had failed.—(A Vorca—More's thepity.) He
said, More was the shams. (Hear, hear.) When the
present government introduced the Bribery Bill he really
was an hopes that there was something like an intention
tilppzes, if male, thebedpractioes prevailing at oar
. The gosernment took one rather bold step—
emo
they asked the House. of Commons, tenacious asthat se-
' serably was of its privileges; to
cisoilviiig the parer of
judging as to the abet to Whichcorruption aigt4 have
prevailed at elections. That power hitherto been in
the hands of the committees of the Haas of Commons,
end the government asked parliament to transfer it to
the judges of the land. They thought, and he thank*,
these judges were not so likely to sympathise with the
offenders as the very class from which the offenders were
dray', and who were therefore placed in the..slisei cir-
cumstances of temptation as theatres ; and beide the
change of tribunal, the governmentpropossed to,
the palates upon the aeries. This gave him=
He °ought awe was easing from the totim sossitting
substantial for the prevention of corruption. The meeting
were not to think him credulous. It was' virry-posdbie
for tories to be simpers in what might fandir their case
at elections. (Laughter.) In the terrible struggle which
bad been going on for some weeks, &amid from dAy to
day, to endeavour to introduce into the bill primates
against corruption at elections, and to prevent that
impn per expense which made it impossible for
any but rich men to gain a seat in parlia-
ment, no parsons stood more consistently by those
who prom ted the effort, and more honourably, than ten
or a dozen tories—high-minded, honourable men, who
would not owe a seat in parliameut to corruption.
(Cheers.) That eery day he had listened to a
which had done his heart good he meant the speech ofe
Mr. Cornea, the tory member for Suffolk. Mr.
complained of the great increase of rates, and the dispro-
portionate degree in which, in his opinion, those rata
would fall upon landed property ; but notwithstanding,
when he was told that purity of election, inexpensiveness
of election, would be- secured by so much as even a
farthing or half • farthing Illereeee of rata
be scorned the circumstance, and said that he and all the
beet agriculturists would much rather pay higher rates,
if by that they could obtain better and more capable
members of parliament (Cheers.) This was said in the
language and tone which was ineeistiblyand unmistakably
characteristic of an honest man. He could name several
other tories who, not only by their votes, but by motions
sad speeches did what they could. But it was all in vain.
After the ministers had carried their own original
proposition for a change of jurisdiction, not one
single improvement would they allow to be made
in the bill. One after another liberal and honest
tory members moved resolution after resolution and
amendment after amendment, and pressed these to a divi-
sion, every one of which had for its object to make elec-
tions purer and cheaper. But not one of them would the
rzernment suffer to be carried. Many liberal members
gone into the country, to which they generally
rushed at this period of the session—and he was sorry to
say it was the period at which all tricks were perpetrated
—(bear, hear)—and by this combination of causes
those who promoted improvement had been defeated.
As far as concerned the present government, electors were
now delivered into the handed millionaires. Two instances
he would mention as peculiarleremarkable in the way. He
thee referred to the result of Weimar Faweett's amend-
ment, and that of Mr. Schreiber. Continuing, he said he
gave credit to the government for a slight preference for
honesty when they introduced the bill, but be had no
doubt that Mr. Spofford', who managed the elation, for
the tory party, who knew all that was going on evm;
where, and in every ismetialec/ is thtt 01.PEsA -
as My man living—he bid no dme individual
his friends in the cabinet they " ,not. akotkin,
at least, pot these practices at end ;if hay defect' Coo •
rigidly it was very mach to lie f saw aceitaol Msm
bars would not get in. (Laughts4 _
ote, pledging the meeting a arra Pin ke.•ealtd..-. •
dates, closed the proceedings. -1( . • • •

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